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  • Neuroimaging

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  • Sequential strategy interference impacts cognitive performance.
  • Understanding age-related differences in neural processing is crucial.

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  • Investigate age-related changes in the neural basis of sequential strategy interference.
  • Compare brain activity in young and older adults during a computational estimation task.

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  • Magnetoencephalography (MEG) was used to analyze brain activity.
  • Participants performed a computational estimation task.
  • Behavioral data on strategy interference were matched between age groups.

Main Results:

  • Older adults showed increased recruitment in frontal, temporal, and parietal regions compared to young adults.
  • Age-related differences in the temporal dynamics of brain activation were observed.
  • Behavioral sequential strategy interference effects were similar across age groups.

Conclusions:

  • Highly functioning older adults employ additional neural mechanisms to achieve comparable performance to young adults.
  • These compensatory mechanisms help older adults mitigate age-related cognitive decline in arithmetic strategy execution.