Citation

Jennings JM, Dagenbach D, Engle CM, Funke LJ. Aging Neuropsychol. Cogn. 2007; 14(4): 353-369.

Affiliation

Wake Forest University, Department of Psychology, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA. jenningj@wfu.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13825580600788837

PMID

17612813

Abstract

The effects of aging on alerting, orienting, and executive function were examined with the use of the Attention Network Task, which combines the Posner spatial cuing task and the Eriksen flanker task into a single procedure. We found that older adults showed significantly less alerting than young adults in response to a warning cue, although there were no age differences in orienting or executive function once processing speed was taken into account. We suggest that age differences in alerting may depend in part upon the presentation duration or persistence of the warning cue.

Language: en