Transparency, replicability, and discovery in cognitive aging research: A computational modeling approach.

ABSTRACT: Healthy aging is associated with deficits in performance on episodic memory tasks. Popular verbal theories of the mechanisms underlying this decrement have primarily focused on inferred changes in associative memory. However, performance on any task is the result of interactions between different neurocognitive mechanisms, such as perceptuomotor, memory, and decision-making processes. As a result, age-related differences in performance could arise from multiple processes, which could lead to incomplete or incorrect conclusions about the sources of aging effects. In addition, standard statistical comparisons of group-level summary statistics, such as mean accuracy, may not provide sufficient information to allow detailed mechanistic explanations of age-related change. We argue that these an

SUBMITTER: Darby KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10064875 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature