Executive functioning in normal aging: A study of action planning using the Zoo Map Test

Allain, Philippe; Nicoleau, S.; Pinon, Karine; Etcharry-Bouyx, Frédérique; Barré, Jessica; Berrut, Gilles; Dubas, Frédéric; Gall, Didier Le

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2004.08.011

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“…For example, Bisiacchi et al (1998) have reported age differences in a task that required participants to complete a series of errands in a fictitious town using the most efficient route. Allain et al (2005) recently administered a zoo trip task to groups of young and older participants, and reported that older adults used less efficient routes, and committed more errors compared to the younger adults. Based on their findings, Allain et al (2005) suggested that the age-related decline in route selection was due to impairment in the formulation rather than execution of the plan.…”

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“…The second route selection task included in the study was an adaptation of a zoo trip task described in Wilson et al (1996) and recently used by Allain et al (2005). In our version of the task the participants were given a map of a zoo and were allowed as much time as desired to select the most efficient route to visit a specified set of exhibits.…”

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Efficiency of route selection as a function of adult age

Salthouse

Siedlecki

2007

Brain and Cognition

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Two tasks hypothesized to assess the efficiency of route selection were administered to 328 adults ranging from 18 to 93 years of age. Increased age was associated with slower completion of mazes, even after adjusting for differences in perceptual-motor speed, and with longer and less accurate routes in a task in which participants were asked to visit designated exhibits in a zoo. The route selection measures were correlated with measures hypothesized to represent executive functioning, such as the number of categories in the Wisconsin card sorting test and the number of words generated in a category fluency test. However, most of the age-related influences on the measures from the route selection tasks were shared with age-related effects on established cognitive abilities, which implies that the same mechanisms may account for the relations of age on both sets of variables.

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Efficiency of route selection as a function of adult age

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Siedlecki

2007

Brain and Cognition

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“…Globally, the ability to navigate and orientate oneself decline with aging (for reviews, see Klencklen et al, 2012;Moffat, 2009). This lesser efficiency, which leads to more errors and longer execution times, is observed not only in situations where a predefined plan exists (Sanders and Schmitter-Edgecombe, 2012; but see Allain et al, 2005), but also in the absence of a predefined plan, e.g., in real-life or in unknown virtual environments such as a medical center or a supermarket (e.g., Head and Isom, 2010;Kirasic, 1991;Wilkniss et al, 1997;Zakzanis et al, 2009). …”

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“…This ability is typically tested with laboratory tasks such as the multiple errand test (Shallice and Burgess, 1991) or the zoo map task (Wilson et al, 1996), which require using a map provided to carry out certain activities (e.g., shopping, visiting people). Older adults are generally found to be less efficient than young ones at determining the complex course of actions needed to reach the predefined goal; they make more mistakes and take more time to prepare the journey (Allain et al, 2005;Sander and Schmitter-Edgecombe, 2012). These findings are problematic, because before navigating to an unfamiliar place, older pedestrians often plan their journey on a map in order to reduce the risk of getting lost and the anxiety that ensues (Phillips et al, 2013).…”

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Review of safety and mobility issues among older pedestrians

Tournier

Dommès²,

Cavallo³

2016

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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a b s t r a c tAlthough old people make up an extremely vulnerable road-user group, older pedestrians' difficulties have been studied less extensively than those of older drivers, and more knowledge of this issue is still required. The present paper reviews current knowledge of older-adult problems with the main components of pedestrian activity, i.e., walking and obstacle negotiation, wayfinding, and road crossing. Compared to younger ones, old pedestrians exhibit declining walking skills, with a walking speed decrease, less stable balance, less efficient wayfinding strategies, and a greater number of unsafe road crossing behaviors. These difficulties are linked to age-related changes in sensorial, cognitive, physical, and self-perception abilities. It is now known that visual impairment, physical frailty, and attention deficits have a major negative impact on older pedestrians' safety and mobility, whereas the roles of self-evaluation and self-regulation are still poorly understood. All these elements must be taken into consideration, not only in developing effective safety interventions targeting older pedestrians, but also in designing roads and cars. Recent initiatives are presented here and some recommendations are proposed.

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“…Allain et al [98] concluded that planning ability is affected in aging when comparing a young and an older age group using the "Zoo Map Test". They found that the older group exhibited more problems than the younger group when they needed to plan a route than when they just followed a predefined pattern, and the authors suggested that elderly participants may have problems in developing "logical strategies".…”

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Cognitive Effects of Late Life Depression: Review of Neuropsychological Findings

Korsnes¹,

Ulstein²

2014

JBBS

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Normal aging and depression both slow information processing speed which leads to poorer attentional control, shallower inhibition monitoring, poorer encoding, poorer updating of short term memory, and subsequent poorer learning, set-shifting, error monitoring, inhibition control, and cognitive planning. A combination of aging and depression amplifies these cognitive effects. Deterioration in frontal brain functioning in normal aging is irreversible, but altering of frontal brain function due to depression may be reversible. Since the symptoms are indistinguishable, it is difficult to separate effects of depression and aging with use of neuropsychological tests, even when premorbid history is known. Statistical group effects show more severe cognitive effects in late life depression than in normal aging or depression in younger persons, but no particular cognitive markers of depression in older subjects have been identified. Attention and inhibition are closely related, but their relationship needs to be studied further. It is not clear, whether a problem with inhibition of irrelevant stimuli occurs because of attentional deficits due to late life depression, or if it is a primary consequence of the depression. Further studies on the relationship between inhibition, attention and processing speed involving homogeneous depressed and nondepressed groups of different age may help disentangle this relationship.

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Executive functioning in normal aging: A study of action planning using the Zoo Map Test

Cited by 98 publications

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Efficiency of route selection as a function of adult age

Efficiency of route selection as a function of adult age

Review of safety and mobility issues among older pedestrians

Cognitive Effects of Late Life Depression: Review of Neuropsychological Findings

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