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Age-related performance of human subjects on saccadic eye movement tasks
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We measured saccadic eye movements in 168 normal human subjects, ranging in age from 5 to 79 years, to determine age-related changes in saccadic task performance. Subjects were instructed to look either toward (pro-saccade task) or away from (anti-saccade task) an eccentric target under different conditions of fixation. We quantified the percentage of direction errors, the time to onset of the eye movement (saccadic reaction time: SRT), and the metrics and dynamics of the movement itself (amplitude, peak velocity, duration) for subjects in different age groups. Young children (5-8 years of age) had slow SRTs, great intra-subject variance in SRT, and the most direction errors in the anti-saccade task. Young adults (20-30 years of age) typically had the fastest SRTs and lowest intra-subject variance in SRT. Elderly subjects (60-79 years of age) had slower SRTs and longer duration saccades than other subject groups. These results demonstrate very strong age-related effects in subject performance, which may reflect different stages of normal development and degeneration in the nervous system. We attribute the dramatic improvement in performance in the anti-saccade task that occurs between the ages of 5-15 years to delayed maturation of the frontal lobes.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Munoz, D. P., Broughton, J. R., Goldring, J. E., & Armstrong, I. T.
- Affiliations
- Queen's University (CA)
- ORCID
- Munoz, D. P.
- Venue
- Experimental Brain Research
- Published
- 1998-08-10
- Volume
- 121
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 391-400
- ISSN
- 0014-4819 (ISSN-L)
- 1432-1106
- OpenAlex
- W1992441758
- Cited by
- 656
- References
- 48
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- FWCI
- 5.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Experimental Brain Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- saccades, aging, age-related changes, saccade latency, antisaccade task, saccade amplitude, saccade velocity, saccade duration, frontal lobe maturation, cognitive development, older adults, children
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aging, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Saccades
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