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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience of Aging
  • Human Communication

Background:

  • Social coordination involves adopting a partner's perspective to build shared understanding.
  • Aging can impact cognitive processes crucial for effective social coordination.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effects of aging on social coordination.
  • To examine the roles of perspective-taking and working memory in age-related changes in social coordination.

Main Methods:

  • A language-based coordination task was administered to young and older adults.
  • Perspective-taking and working memory demands were manipulated experimentally.
  • Participant responses were scored based on descriptive accuracy.

Main Results:

  • Social coordination performance significantly decreases with age.
  • Older adults demonstrated impairments in perspective-taking compared to younger adults.
  • Both age groups showed performance decline with increased working memory load.

Conclusions:

  • Aging negatively impacts social coordination, potentially reducing communicative efficacy.
  • Deficits in perspective-taking appear to be a key factor in older adults' social coordination challenges.
  • Social coordination decline in aging may be multifactorial, involving both perspective-taking and working memory.