2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2012.12.001
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Sustained attention in the elderly: What do we know and what does it tell us about cognitive aging?

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“…Sustained attention ability is therefore evaluated by the vigilance decrement, typified by either a decrease in accuracy and/or an increase in response speed over the watch keeping period. The duration of TFTs differ considerably between studies (from 150 s to 2 h), the average duration being 30 to 45 minutes (Staub et al, 2013). In such tasks, it is assumed that an automation of the simple target-response relationship occurs early into the task, and thus rapidly reduces the need for controlled attention over action (Manly et al, 1999).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Sustained attention ability is therefore evaluated by the vigilance decrement, typified by either a decrease in accuracy and/or an increase in response speed over the watch keeping period. The duration of TFTs differ considerably between studies (from 150 s to 2 h), the average duration being 30 to 45 minutes (Staub et al, 2013). In such tasks, it is assumed that an automation of the simple target-response relationship occurs early into the task, and thus rapidly reduces the need for controlled attention over action (Manly et al, 1999).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although age differences in attention and cognitive control are at the center of many frameworks of cognitive aging, (e.g., levels of processing; Craik and Simon, 1980;inhibitory deficit theory;Hasher and Zacks, 1988), the behavioral evidence for age-related deficits in these functions is somewhat surprisingly mixed, especially for paradigms that emphasize attention with minimal memory demands. For example, in sustained attention or vigilance tasks, older adults sometimes perform as well or even better than young adults (see review by Staub et al, 2013). The relationship between topdown control demands and age differences is at first counterintuitive: Older adults are more likely to show deficits on traditional vigilance tasks, which require responding to rare targets and are thus thought to rely more on bottom-up, alerting aspects of attention than on top-down control processes.…”
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“…Consider first the case of traditional vigilance tasks. As suggested by Staub et al (2013), compared to newer vigilance tasks, which emphasize response inhibition, traditional tasks place more emphasis on target detection. Performance on these tasks is therefore more heavily influenced by bottom-up sensory salience, and age-related declines in lower-level sensory and perceptual function may put older adults at a disadvantage.…”
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“…10. DOI: 10.17979/reipe.2015 SILVA se em uma tarefa é um requesito na vida profissional (Staub, Doignon-Camus, Després & Bonnefond, 2013).…”
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