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Executive functions in normal aging: the mediating effect of processing speed and attentional system
Gilsoul, Jessica; Simon, Jessica; Collette, Fabienne
20176TH SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE FEDERATION OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETIES OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
 

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Keywords :
Executive functions; Speed of processing; Attentional system
Abstract :
[en] Objective The normal aging is associated with decrease in executive functioning efficiency. However, the source of these cognitive difficulties could reside in some factors that are not executive per se. Therefore, this present study is aimed at determining whether speed of processing and attentional variables would mediate the effect of age on the executive functioning. Participants and Methods Young (n = 104) and old (n = 63) participants were enrolled and carried out a large battery made of 21 executive (inhibition, shifting, working memory updating, and double task coordination), attentional (phasic alertness, selective attention, and sustained attention), and processing speed tasks. Based on Baron & Kenny’s recommendations (1986), mediation models of the age effect on the executive functioning were carried out with processing speed and attentional system taken as mediators. Results Selective attention significantly mediated the effect of age on working memory updating [􀇻R2 = 7%, p < .001]. Moreover, processing speed significantly mediated the effect of age on shifting [􀇻R2 = 7%, p < .001], working memory updating [􀇻R2 = 5%, p < .001], and double task coordination [􀇻R2 = 14%, p < .001]. Conclusions The mediating effect of age on most of the executive functions by measures of processing speed is in agreement with the literature showing a major influence of the slowdown of the processing speed on cognition (Salthouse, 1992; 2000; 2005). The age effect on inhibition did not seem to be mediated neither by the attentional variables nor the speed variables, which is in accordance with Zacks & Hasher’s hypothesis (1988). According to these authors, inhibition would be the first cognitive function to decline with age.
Research center :
GIGA-CRC in Vivo Imaging
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Gilsoul, Jessica ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > GIGA-CRC in Vivo Imaging
Simon, Jessica  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Psychologie quantitative
Collette, Fabienne  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Neuropsychologie
Language :
English
Title :
Executive functions in normal aging: the mediating effect of processing speed and attentional system
Alternative titles :
[fr] Les fonctions exécutives dans le vieillissement normal: l'effet médiateur de la vitesse de traitement et du système attentionnel
Publication date :
14 September 2017
Number of pages :
A0
Event name :
6TH SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE FEDERATION OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETIES OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Event organizer :
Fabienne Collette, president of the Société de Neuropsychologie de Langue Française Christophe Lafosse, president of the Vlaamse Vereniging voor Neuropsychologie and the local organising committee
Event place :
Maastricht, Netherlands
Event date :
du 13 au 15 Septembre 2017
Audience :
International
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
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