The Relative Contribution of Executive Functions and Aging on Attentional Control During Road Crossing.

ABSTRACT: As we age, many physical, perceptual and cognitive abilities decline, which can critically impact our day-to-day lives. However, the decline of many abilities is concurrent; thus, it is challenging to disentangle the relative contributions of different abilities in the performance deterioration in realistic tasks, such as road crossing, with age. Research into road crossing has shown that aging and a decline in executive functioning (EFs) is associated with altered information sampling and less safe crossing decisions compared to younger adults. However, in these studies declines in age and EFs were confounded. Therefore, it is impossible to disentangle whether age-related declines in EFs impact on visual sampling and road-crossing performance, or whether visual exploration, and road-cross

SUBMITTER: Nicholls VI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9133663 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature