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Aging and Executive Control: Reports of a Demise Greatly Exaggerated
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I report a series of meta-analyses on aging and executive control. A first set of analyses failed to find evidence for specific age-related deficits in tasks of selective attention (inhibition of return, negative priming, flanker, and Stroop) or tasks tapping local task-shifting costs (reading with distractors is an exception) but found evidence for specific age-related deficits in tasks of divided attention (dual tasking and global task-shifting costs). The second set examined whether executive control explained any age-related variance in complex cognition (episodic memory, reasoning, spatial abilities) over and beyond the effects of speed and working memory; it did not. Thus, the purported decline in executive control with advancing age is clearly not general, and it may ultimately play only a small role in explaining age-related deficits in complex cognition.
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- Authors
- Verhaeghen, P.
- Venue
- Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2011-05-24
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 174-180
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- 0963-7214 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8721
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- W1992746851
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- 333
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 10.40
- Type
- journal article
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- en
- Open access
- green
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