Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Differential course of executive control changes during normal aging.

Friederike H Treitz1, Katrin Heyder, Irene Daum

  • 1Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neuropsychology, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany. friederike.treitz@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Neuropsychology, Development, and Cognition. Section B, Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition
|July 7, 2007
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Mechanisms of cerebellar contributions to cognition in humans.

Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science·2015
Same author

Impairments in learning by monetary rewards and alcohol-associated rewards in detoxified alcoholic patients.

Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research·2014
Same author

Comorbid substance use disorder in schizophrenia: a selective overview of neurobiological and cognitive underpinnings.

Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences·2013
Same author

The involvement of the thalamus in semantic retrieval: a clinical group study.

Journal of cognitive neuroscience·2013
Same author

Cortical processing of saccade-related efference copy signals in patients with cerebellar lesion.

The European journal of neuroscience·2012
Same author

Theory of mind and empathy in patients at an early stage of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis.

Clinical neurology and neurosurgery·2012

Executive function declines sharply after age 60, particularly in inhibition and attention. Other executive control subcomponents like memory and reasoning remain largely unaffected in older adults.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Normal aging is linked to executive control deficits.
  • It remains unclear if specific executive subprocesses are affected differently by aging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate age-related effects on various executive control subcomponents.
  • To determine if executive function declines uniformly or differentially across the lifespan.

Main Methods:

  • Compared four age groups (20-75 years) on executive function tasks.
  • Assessed strategic memory, verbal fluency, reasoning, inhibition, and attention.
  • Controlled for IQ and mood in participants.

Main Results:

  • Individuals over 60 showed deficits in inhibiting prepotent responses and dividing attention.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Memory, verbal fluency, and reasoning were not significantly affected by age.
  • Executive function showed a marked decline after 60 years.

    • Conclusions:

    • Executive function declines differentially across aging, with specific deficits emerging after 60.
    • Findings support a multi-dimensional model of executive function.
    • Age-related changes impact inhibition and attention more than memory or reasoning.