Age-related differences in cognitive function using a global local hierarchical paradigm

Georgiou‐Karistianis, Nellie; Tang, Judy; Mehmedbegovic, Fatima; Farrow, Maree; Bradshaw, John L.; Sheppard, Dianne Melinda

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2006.09.070

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“…Hence the verbal value of letters involves predominantly left hemisphere local processing strategies, while the right hemisphere lateralization for faces involves predominantly global processing strategies, without the ability to efficiently switch between strategies or compensate for a particular hemisphere-bound weakness. Although this hypothesis is post hoc and obviously calls for research aimed to testing inter-hemispheric transfer in the elderly, it is partly supported by studies that showed difficulties to switch between levels of processing in the elderly (Georgiou-Karistianis, et al, 2006). It also resonates findings showing reduced white-matter connectivity in the right hemisphere (Thomas et al, 2008).…”

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“…Hasher, et al, 2007), and reduced resistance to irrelevant distracters (e.g. Andres, et al, 2006; Georgiou-Karistianis, et al, 2006; Machado, et al, 2009). …”

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“…1 Some studies found an age-related shift from global to local processing precedence (Lux et al, 2008, Oken et al, 1999), and interpreted the relative faster decline of global processing to a narrowed attentional field (cf., Kosslyn et al, 1999). Other studies, however, found preserved global precedence in the normal elderly albeit compared with younger participants, the older participants were overall slower, less accurate (Bruyer and Scailquin, 2000; Bruyer, et al, 2003; Georgiou-Karistianis, et al, 2006 (Experiment 1)), and could not easily switch from one processing level to the other (Georgiou-Karistianis, et al, 2006 (Experiment 2)).…”

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Age-related changes in processing faces from detection to identification: ERP evidence

Daniel¹,

Bentin²

2012

Neurobiology of Aging

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We examined the ability of people 70 to 90 years old to apply global, configural and featural faceprocessing strategies. In addition we investigated age-related changes in the ability to categorize faces at basic, subordinate and individual levels. Using the N170 potential as index of early face processing and the P300 component as index of categorical decision making and effort, we found significant age-related perceptual changes which slowed and somewhat impaired face processing. Specifically, older participants had problems integrating face features into global structures, demonstrating enhanced dependence on distal global information. They did not apply configural computations by default while processing faces which suggests that, unless identification is required, they process faces only at a basic level. These perceptual changes could be the cause for slower and less accurate subordinate categorization, particularly when it is based on details. At the neural levels face processing was not right-lateralized, reflecting excessive involvement of the left hemisphere in perception leading to a more general reduction of inter-hemispheric asymmetry. In addition we found excessive but nonselective activation of frontal regions adding support to the view that executive control and particularly inhibition of irrelevant input are reduced in the elderly.Evidence from human (Bian and Andersen, 2008;Fiorentini, et al., 1996;Habak and Faubert, 2000) and monkey research (e.g. Wang, et al., 2005;Zhang, et al., 2008) indicates that, though not dramatically (e.g. Norman, et al., 2008), the efficiency of visual perception declines with age even in healthy individuals. Within this framework age-associated changes in face recognition have been the focus of many studies using performance (e.g. Bartlett and Fulton, 1991;Boutet and Faubert, 2006;Habak, et al., 2008) as well as EEG (e.g. Pfutze, et al., 2002) and hemodynamic neuroimaging (e.g. Grady, 2002;Grady, et al., 2007) methods. Most of these studies revealed reduced face recognition ability in the elderly (e.g. Lott, et al., 2005;Searcy, et al., 1999), even more so than it is evident for object recognition (Boutet © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved Address for Correspondence: Shlomo Bentin, PhD Department of Psychology Hebrew University Jerusalem 91905 Israel shlomo.bentin@huji.ac.il Tel xx972 2 5881090 Fax xx972 2 5825659. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.Disclosure Statement We declare no actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or...

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“…Hasher, et al, 2007), and reduced resistance to irrelevant distracters (e.g. Andres, et al, 2006; Georgiou-Karistianis, et al, 2006; Machado, et al, 2009). …”

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Age-related changes in processing faces from detection to identification: ERP evidence

Daniel¹,

Bentin²

2012

Neurobiology of Aging

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“…This is important, because both biological motion perception and visual attention have been found to decline with age. Deficits in various domains of visual attention have been found such as temporal (e.g., Georgiou-Karistianis, N., Tang, J., Mehmedbegovic, F., Farrow, M., Bradshaw, J., & Sheppard, D. et al, 2006) and spatial attention (e.g., Lincourt, Folk & Hoyer, 1997), but more importantly, selective attention (e.g., Watson, Maylor & Manson et al, 2002). Common tasks used to measure selective visual attention, for example, are the Stroop task (Stroop, 1935) and visual search tasks.…”

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Visual attention, biological motion perception, and healthy ageing

Agnew

Phillips

Pilz

2018

Psychological Research

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Biological motion perception is the ability of the visual system to perceive complex human movement patterns. The previous studies have shown a direct link between attentional abilities and performance on biological motion tasks, both of which have been shown to deteriorate with age. However, it is not known whether there is a direct link between age-related deficits in biological motion processing and attention. Here, we investigated whether age-related changes in biological motion perception are mediated by impaired attentional abilities. To assess basic biological motion performance, we asked 42 younger (M = 21 years) and 39 older adults (M = 69 years) to indicate the facing direction of point-light actions. Performance did not differ between age groups. We assessed visual spatial and selective attentional abilities, using a range of tasks: conjunctive visual search, spatial cueing, and the Stroop task. Across all tasks, older adults were significantly slower to respond and exhibited larger interference/cueing effects, compared to younger adults. To assess attentional demands in relation with biological motion perception, participants performed a biological motion search task for which they had to indicate the presence of a target point-light walker among a varied number of distracters. Older adults were slower, and generally worse than younger adults at discriminating the walkers. Correlations showed that there was no significant relationship between performance in attention tasks and biological motion processing, which indicates that age-related changes in biological motion perception are unlikely to be driven by general attentional decline.

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“…Despite some contradictory findings (e.g., Roux and Ceccaldi, 2001; Georgiou-Karistianis et al, 2006), a substantial body of research has illustrated cognitive impairments among older (as compared with younger) individuals when processing global stimuli (e.g., Slavin et al, 2002; Staudinger et al, 2011; Lithfous et al, 2016). In fact, some scholars have concluded that there may be a general shift from global toward local processing precedence with increasing age (Oken et al, 1999; Lux et al, 2008).…”

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The Curvilinear Relationship between Age and Emotional Aperture: The Moderating Role of Agreeableness

Faber¹,

Walter²

2017

Front. Psychol.

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The capability to correctly recognize collective emotion expressions [i.e., emotional aperture (EA)] is crucial for effective social and work-related interactions. Yet, little remains known about the antecedents of this ability. The present study therefore aims to shed new light onto key aspects that may promote or diminish an individual’s EA. We examine the role of age for this ability in an online sample of 181 participants (with an age range of 18–72 years, located in Germany), and we investigate agreeableness as a key contingency factor. Among individuals with lower agreeableness, on the one hand, our results indicate a curvilinear relationship between age and EA, such that EA remains at a relatively high level until these individuals’ middle adulthood (with a slight increase until their late 30s) and declines afterward. Individuals with higher agreeableness, on the other hand, exhibit relatively high EA irrespective of their age. Together, these findings offer new insights for the emerging literature on EA, illustrating that specific demographic and personality characteristics may jointly shape such collective emotion recognition.

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Age-related differences in cognitive function using a global local hierarchical paradigm

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Age-related changes in processing faces from detection to identification: ERP evidence

Age-related changes in processing faces from detection to identification: ERP evidence

Visual attention, biological motion perception, and healthy ageing

The Curvilinear Relationship between Age and Emotional Aperture: The Moderating Role of Agreeableness

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