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Orienting of visual attention in aging
1Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel; School of Behavioral Science, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
|August 18, 2016
Summary
Healthy aging affects attention orienting not directly, but through interactions with other cognitive processes. This impacts daily living, social interactions, and job skills.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Gerontology
- Psychology
Background:
- Attention changes are key cognitive shifts in aging.
- Orienting, the ability to focus attention, is crucial for daily functioning.
- Aging may affect orienting via neurocognitive mechanisms.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review factors mediating aging's impact on attention orienting.
- To examine neurobiological changes affecting orienting in aging.
- To understand how aging interacts with cognitive processes impacting orienting.
Main Methods:
- Literature review of studies on aging and attention orienting.
- Analysis of factors like overt/covert attending, exogenous/endogenous processes, and cue-target onset asynchrony (SOA).
- Consideration of brain substrates: cortical/white matter integrity, connectivity, and neuromodulation.
Main Results:
- Aging's impact on orienting is often indirect, mediated by interactions with other cognitive functions.
- Factors like SOA and reorienting costs significantly influence orienting performance in older adults.
- Brain changes, including white matter integrity and connectivity, are implicated.
Conclusions:
- Healthy aging influences orienting performance primarily through interactions with other cognitive processes.
- Understanding these interactions is key to addressing age-related attention deficits.
- This research highlights the complex interplay of cognitive and neural factors in aging.
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