Explicit and implicit timing in older adults: Dissociable associations with age and cognitive decline.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to test two common explanations for the general finding of age-related changes in the performance of timing tasks within the millisecond-to-second range intervals. The first explanation is that older adults have a real difficulty in temporal processing as compared to younger adults. The second explanation is that older adults perform poorly on timing tasks because of their reduced cognitive control functions. These explanations have been mostly contrasted in explicit timing tasks that overtly require participants to process interval durations. Fewer studies have instead focused on implicit timing tasks, where no explicit instructions to process time are provided. Moreover, the investigation of both explicit and implicit timing in older adults has been restricted so far to

SUBMITTER: Capizzi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8926191 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature