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Author(s): Dorbath, Lara; Titz, Cora
Title: Dissociable age effects in focus-switching. Out of sight, out of mind
In: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 24 (2011) 2, S. 103-109
DOI: 10.1024/1662-9647/a000034
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1024/1662-9647/a000034
Publication Type: 3a. Beiträge in begutachteten Zeitschriften; Aufsatz (keine besondere Kategorie)
Language: Englisch
Keywords: Altersgruppe; Arbeitsgedächtnis; Aufgabe; Aufmerksamkeit; Deutschland; Erwachsener; Experimentelle Untersuchung
Abstract (english): Focus-switching has recently been identified as an executive control process with differential age sensitivity. To date, the
assumption of dissociable age effects is based on only two kinds of tasks constricting its conclusiveness. In a study with 85 younger
(19 35 years) and 91 older adults (59 80 years), age effects were again dissociable in two alternative tasks with respect to the availability
and the accessibility of representations. The results validate earlier findings that focus-switching is primarily affected in maintaining
representations rather than in accessing them.
DIPF-Departments: Bildung und Entwicklung