Executive function abilities in cognitively healthy young and older adults-A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: A prominent feature of cognitive aging is the decline of executive function (EF) abilities. Numerous studies have reported that older adults perform poorer than younger adults in such tasks. In this cross-sectional study, the effect of age on four EFs, inhibition, shifting, updating, and dual-tasking, was examined in 26 young adults (mean 21.18  years) and 25 older adults (mean 71.56  years) with the utilization of a pair of tasks for each EF. The tasks employed for DT were the Psychological Refractory Period paradigm (PRP) and a modified test for everyday attention, for inhibition the Stroop and Hayling sentence completion test (HSCT), for shifting a task switching paradigm and the trail making test (TMT), and for updating the backward digit span (BDS) task and a n-back paradigm. As all p

SUBMITTER: Idowu MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9945216 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature