Age, Sex, and Inhibitory Control: Identifying a Specific Impairment in Memorial, But Not Perceptual, Inhibition in Older Women.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Declines in the ability to inhibit information, and the consequences to memory of unsuccessful inhibition, have been frequently reported to increase with age. However, few studies have investigated whether sex moderates such effects. Here, we examined whether inhibitory ability may vary as a function of age and sex, and the interaction between these two factors.

Method

202 older (mean age = 69.40 years) and younger (mean age =30.59 years) participants who had equivalent educational attainment and self-reported health completed 2 tasks that varied only in the time point at which inhibition should occur: either prior to, or after, encoding.

Results

While we did not find evidence for age or sex differences in inhibitory processes when information needed to be

SUBMITTER: Siegel ALM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8599043 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature