Confirmation of age-related alterations in inhibitory control using a modified minimally delayed oculomotor response (MDOR) task.

ABSTRACT: Considerable effort has been made to measure and understand the effects of ageing on inhibitory control using a range of behavioural tasks. In the minimally delayed oculomotor response (MDOR) task, participants are presented with a simple visual target step with variable target display duration (TDD), and instructed to saccade to the target not when it appears (a prosaccade response), but when it disappears (i.e., on target offset). Using this task, we recently found higher error rates and longer latencies for correct responses in older compared to younger participants. Here we have used a modified MDOR task, in which participants were presented with static placeholders identifying potential target positions (increasing spatial information), and three TDDs rather than two (reducing tempora

SUBMITTER: Knox PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8214395 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature