The preservation of response inhibition aftereffects in a location-based spatial negative priming task: younger versus older adults

2014 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Buckolz ◽  
Michael Lok ◽  
Ben Kajaste ◽  
Cameron Edgar ◽  
Michael Khan
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Negative Priming ◽  
Response Inhibition ◽  
Priming Task ◽  
Spatial Negative Priming

scholarly journals Effect of Age in Auditory Go/No-Go Tasks: A Magnetoencephalographic Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 667
Author(s):  
Mei-Yin Lin ◽  
Chia-Hsiung Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Response Inhibition ◽  
Cortical Activation ◽  
Middle Temporal Gyrus ◽  
Neural Responses ◽  
Source Imaging ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Aging Populations ◽  
Neural Underpinnings ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

Response inhibition is frequently examined using visual go/no-go tasks. Recently, the auditory go/no-go paradigm has been also applied to several clinical and aging populations. However, age-related changes in the neural underpinnings of auditory go/no-go tasks are yet to be elucidated. We used magnetoencephalography combined with distributed source imaging methods to examine age-associated changes in neural responses to auditory no-go stimuli. Additionally, we compared the performance of high- and low-performing older adults to explore differences in cortical activation. Behavioral performance in terms of response inhibition was similar in younger and older adult groups. Relative to the younger adults, the older adults exhibited reduced cortical activation in the superior and middle temporal gyrus. However, we did not find any significant differences in cortical activation between the high- and low-performing older adults. Our results therefore support the hypothesis that inhibition is reduced during aging. The variation in cognitive performance among older adults confirms the need for further study on the underlying mechanisms of inhibition.

Impaired distractor inhibition on a selective attention task in unmedicated, depressed subjects

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 557-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. MacQUEEN ◽  
S. P. TIPPER ◽  
L. T. YOUNG ◽  
R. T. JOFFE ◽  
A. J. LEVITT
Keyword(s):  
Selective Attention ◽  
Negative Priming ◽  
Unipolar Depression ◽  
Visual Stream ◽  
Attention Task ◽  
Distractor Inhibition ◽  
Priming Task ◽  
Priming Paradigm ◽  
Selective Attention Deficits ◽  
Processing Colour

Background. Impaired distractor inhibition may contribute to the selective attention deficits observed in depressed patients, but studies to date have not tested the distractor inhibition theory against the possibility that processes such as transient memory review processes may account for the observed deficits. A negative priming paradigm can dissociate inhibition from such a potentially confounding process called object review. The negative priming task also isolates features of the distractor such as colour and location for independent examination.Method. A computerized negative priming task was used in which colour, identification and location features of a stimulus and distractor were systematically manipulated across successive prime and probe trials. Thirty-two unmedicated subjects with DSM-IV diagnoses of non-psychotic unipolar depression were compared with 32 age, sex and IQ matched controls.Results. Depressed subjects had reduced levels of negative priming for conditions where the colour feature of the stimulus was repeated across prime and probe trials but not when identity or location was the repeated feature. When both the colour and location feature were the repeated feature across trials, facilitation in response was apparent.Conclusions. The pattern of results supports studies that found reduced distractor inhibition in depressed subjects, and suggests that object review is intact in these subjects. Greater impairment in negative priming for colour versus location suggests that subjects may have greater impairment in the visual stream associated with processing colour features.

scholarly journals Influence of attended repetition trials on negative priming in younger and older adults

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Simone ◽  
Karen Ahrens ◽  
Karin Elaine Goodson Foerde ◽  
Michael Spinetta
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Negative Priming
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