Background: A number of cognitive aging models have been proposed to explain the age-related decline in several cognitive functions, but these models have rarely been examined together.
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Background: A number of cognitive aging models have been proposed to explain the age-related decline in several cognitive functions, but these models have rarely been examined together.
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- The auditory trap: early semantic conflict and late monitoring breakdown drive false memories in cognitive aging (2026) · doi
Introduction Cognitive aging increases vulnerability to false memories, yet the neural mechanisms underlying age-related susceptibility across sensory modalities remain poorly understood.
Keywords: introduction cognitive aging increases vulnerability false memories neural mechanisms underlying related susceptibility across sensory modalities - Mechanisms of semantic composition in older adults: control, semantic processing, and imagery (2026) · doi
Our focus on within-age associations limits conclusions about age-related differences. Internet-using older adults from Prolific tend to have higher education and cognitive functioning than the general population (Berner et al., 2015). However, the relation between Flanker RT and Flanker error relation differed by age, which is consistent with the well-studied speed- accuracy tradeoff (for review, see Heitz, 2014) and age-related shifts toward more accuracy-focused response strategies (e.g., Ratcliff et al., 2001; Starns and Ratcliff, 2010). Pooling across these opposing patterns would risk averaging away age-specific effects though for transparency, we report the all-age model in the Supplementary Materials. We acknowledge that although the semantic processing task has been associated with individual differences in hippocampal connectivity (Sormaz et al., 2017;
Keywords: related erences relation flanker accuracy ratcli focus within associations limits conclusions internet using older adults - Contributions of Cognitive Aging Models to the Explanation of Source Memory Decline across the Adult Lifespan (2020) · doi
Background: A number of cognitive aging models have been proposed to explain the age-related decline in several cognitive functions, but these models have rarely been examined together.
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