Cognitive Control Challenge Task Across the Lifespan.

ABSTRACT: Meeting everyday challenges and responding in a goal-directed manner requires both the ability to maintain the current task set in face of distractors-stable cognitive control, and the ability to flexibly generate or switch to a new task set when environmental requirements change-flexible cognitive control. While studies show that the development varies across individual component processes supporting cognitive control, little is known about changes in complex stable and flexible cognitive control across the lifespan. In the present study, we used the newly developed Cognitive Control Challenge Task (C3T) to examine the development of complex stable and flexible cognitive control across the lifespan and to gain insight into their interdependence. A total of 340 participants (229 women, age

SUBMITTER: Politakis VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8864288 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature