Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Sequential and coordinative complexity: age-based processing limitations in figural transformations

U Mayr1, R Kliegl

  • 1Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin, Germany.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|November 1, 1993
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Home-based exercise programmes improve physical fitness of healthy older adults: A PRISMA-compliant systematic review and meta-analysis with relevance for COVID-19.

Ageing research reviews·2021
Same author

First description of spontaneous fungal peritonitis caused by <i>Fusarium solani</i> in a critically ill patient with liver cirrhosis.

New microbes and new infections·2017
Same author

Reconstruction of eye movements during blinks.

Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.)·2008
Same author

Generating surrogates from recurrences.

Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences·2007
Same author

[International education--Eu program. AZW Innsbruck Health and Nursing School participates in the EU program of the Leonard Da Vinci project].

Osterreichische Pflegezeitschrift : Organ des Osterreichischen Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegeverbands·2002
Same author

Exacerbated vein graft arteriosclerosis in protein kinase Cdelta-null mice.

The Journal of clinical investigation·2001
Same journal

Testing the predictions of a distinctiveness model of memory: The production effect in backward recall.

Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition·2026
Same journal

On the impact of adjacency on transposed-word effects under serial presentation.

Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition·2026
Same journal

It's time to opt out: Metacognitive analysis of time regulation under uncertainty.

Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition·2026
Same journal

The role of statistical learning in attentional guidance during search through naturalistic scenes.

Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition·2026
Same journal

Representing objects and features in long-term memory: A case for direct feature-feature binding.

Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition·2026
Same journal

Crossmodal correspondences influence adaptation during rule-based category learning of objects.

Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition·2026
See all related articles

Cognitive complexity in older adults shows age-related slowing, particularly in coordinative tasks compared to sequential ones. This suggests working memory declines contribute to processing difficulties in complex cognitive transformations.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Development
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Investigating cognitive complexity and its relationship with aging is crucial for understanding age-related cognitive changes.
  • Previous research indicates processing speed declines with age, but the specific impact of different cognitive complexity types remains less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine age differences in cognitive complexity, specifically in figural transformations.
  • To differentiate the impact of sequential versus coordinative complexity on cognitive performance in adults.

Main Methods:

  • Adult participants engaged in figural transformation tasks manipulating sequential and coordinative complexity.
  • Sequential complexity involved single object transformations within an array; coordinative complexity involved array-wide transformations.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Performance was assessed across multiple sessions and accuracy-equated conditions, analyzing error types.

    • Main Results:

    • Significantly greater age-related slowing was observed under coordinative complexity conditions compared to sequential complexity.
    • This effect remained consistent across experimental sessions and when accuracy was controlled.
    • Age-differential error patterns further supported the findings.

    Conclusions:

    • Age-related cognitive slowing is more pronounced for tasks requiring coordinative complexity.
    • A proposed model suggests this is due to basic processing speed declines and working memory failures leading to repeated processing.
    • Understanding these specific cognitive demands is vital for interventions targeting age-related cognitive decline.