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Irrelevant Stimuli and Action Control: Analyzing the Influence of Ignored Stimuli via the Distractor-Response Binding Paradigm
Published on: May 14, 2014
Feature integration across the lifespan: stickier stimulus-response bindings in children and older adults
Bernhard Hommel1, Jutta Kray, Ulman Lindenberger
1Leiden Institute for Psychological Research and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Netherlands.
Abstract:
Humans integrate the features of perceived events and of action plans into episodic event files. Here we investigated whether children (9-10 years), younger adults (20-31 years), and older adults (64-76 years) differ in the flexibility of managing (updating) event files. Relative to young adults, performance in children and older adults was more hampered by partial mismatches between present and previous stimulus-response relations, suggesting less efficient updating of episodic stimulus-response representations in childhood and old age. Results are discussed in relation to changes in cortical neurochemistry during maturation and senescence.
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