Age-related alterations in inhibitory control investigated using the minimally delayed oculomotor response task.

ABSTRACT: Healthy, older adults are widely reported to experience cognitive decline, including impairments in inhibitory control. However, this general proposition has recently come under scrutiny because ageing effects are highly variable between individuals, are task dependent, and are sometimes not distinguished from general age-related slowing. We recently developed the minimally delayed oculomotor response (MDOR) task in which participants are presented with a simple visual target step, and instructed to saccade not to the target when it appears (a prosaccade response), but when it disappears (i.e. on target offset). Varying the target display duration (TDD) prevents offset timing being predictable from the time of target onset, and saccades prior to the offset are counted as errors. A comparis

SUBMITTER: Knox PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6955103 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature