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Very honoured to receive this award & in such company.
Psychonomics was the first conference I attended as a new grad student and I remember being awestruck by the science. Thinking, this is for me! This is what I want to do! (Does this mean I'm doing it?
) https://twitter.com/Psychonomic_Soc/status/1275941208389541893
Psychonomics was the first conference I attended as a new grad student and I remember being awestruck by the science. Thinking, this is for me! This is what I want to do! (Does this mean I'm doing it?
) https://twitter.com/Psychonomic_Soc/status/1275941208389541893
While I’ve got your attention (b/c who knows if I ever will again), here is what I’ve found that I think you should know about (thread):
1) Older adults can bind. In fact, they bind too much (or “hyper-bind”).
Reduced inhibitory control with age leads more irrelevant info to enter/remain in the focus of attention and this info becomes inadvertently bound to target info. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797609359910#articleShareContainer
Reduced inhibitory control with age leads more irrelevant info to enter/remain in the focus of attention and this info becomes inadvertently bound to target info. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797609359910#articleShareContainer
2) So why does associative memory decline with age? First, it depends on how you test memory for those associations. Explicit tests show declines, implicit tests do not.
For instance: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13825585.2020.1782827
For instance: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13825585.2020.1782827
3) Poor performance on explicit tests may also reflect greater interference from excess associations.
e.g. We have shown that older adults bind across successive trials on a paired associates task and this leads to more false alarms to rearranged pairs. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-28768-001
e.g. We have shown that older adults bind across successive trials on a paired associates task and this leads to more false alarms to rearranged pairs. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-28768-001
4) Age-related declines in attentional control may also affect how older adults perceive events in everyday life.
While young adults seem to attend to the same things, as indexed by neural synchrony, older adults are more idiosyncratic: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458015003942?via%3Dihub
While young adults seem to attend to the same things, as indexed by neural synchrony, older adults are more idiosyncratic: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458015003942?via%3Dihub
5) Age-related declines in neural synchrony are particularly pronounced in the MTL, mPFC, and frontoparietal network.
The language network does not differ with age, suggesting that natural (i.e., task-free) language processing remains intact with age. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0197458018302835?via%3Dihub
The language network does not differ with age, suggesting that natural (i.e., task-free) language processing remains intact with age. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0197458018302835?via%3Dihub
6) We have also shown this by contrasting natural sentence comprehension with a simple grammaticality task.
Age difs were seen during the task, but not during natural listening, suggesting that the way we test cognition is critical! https://www.jneurosci.org/content/36/19/5214.short
Age difs were seen during the task, but not during natural listening, suggesting that the way we test cognition is critical! https://www.jneurosci.org/content/36/19/5214.short
7) Finally, this is more of an opinion than a finding - let’s stop wasting our time on the resting state.
There is more to be gained from cognitive tasks and natural paradigms. Some disagree, and you can read their replies to this target article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23273798.2016.1227858
There is more to be gained from cognitive tasks and natural paradigms. Some disagree, and you can read their replies to this target article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23273798.2016.1227858
