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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Aging Research
  • Human Psychology

Background:

  • Attention control is crucial for cognitive function and changes with age.
  • Specific age-related differences in attention mechanisms remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate age-related differences in early attention capture, response selection, and attention disengagement.
  • To utilize a novel auditory spatial attention task to compare young and older adults.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a novel auditory spatial attention task.
  • Evaluated early attention capture, response selection, and lingering effects of attention across trials.
  • Compared performance between young and older adult groups.

Main Results:

  • Spatial attention capture gradients were similar between young and older adults.
  • Older adults exhibited lingering effects of attention capture on subsequent trials.
  • Older adults showed slower response selection for stimulus-response incompatibilities, particularly at midline locations.

Conclusions:

  • Attention capture likelihood and spatial tuning are comparable across age groups.
  • Older adults experience difficulties in disengaging attention after capture.
  • Age-related differences in response selection may not be a universal feature of cognitive aging.