Cognitive performance from childhood to old age and intergenerational correlations in the multigenerational Young Finns Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cognitive performance changes during the lifespan, but the information is gathered from studies on separate age cohorts. Computerized neurocognitive testing enables efficient and similar assessments for all ages. We investigated (i) the effect of age at different stages of life and (ii) intergenerational correlations across cognitive domains in the multigenerational Young Finns Study.

Methods

Participants in three familiarly related generations (n = 6486, aged 7-92 years) performed the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB). Overall cognitive performance and domains representing learning and memory, working memory, information processing, and reaction time were extracted by common principal component analysis from the cognitive data with seve

SUBMITTER: Heiskanen MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11561001 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature