Journal
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 103, Issue -, Pages 69-82Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2014.08.008
Keywords
Age-related flanker effect; Compensatory response; Event related potential; Reversal response rule
Funding
- Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of the Republic of China, Taiwan [101-2410-H-006-046-MY3]
- Headquarters of University Advancement at the National Cheng Kung University - Ministry of Education, Taiwan, R.O.C.
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This study aimed to establish a baseline condition to observe ERP responses for older adults in a conventional flanker-task paradigm, in which neither a reversal response rule toward a target nor a color-coded target was employed. In addition, this study aimed to examine whether the previous finding of the compensatory responses reflected on event-related potential (ERP) for older adults in performing a flanker task was due to the specific demand of the reversal response rule toward a target or simply due to the pop-out effect with a singleton target manipulation. The results of the current study showed that (1) some of the previously thought-to-be compensatory ERP responses might not really reflect compensatory responses; (2) the previous finding of age-related ERP compensatory responses was mainly due to the manipulation of the reversal response rule condition; and (3) in some scenarios of flanker-task paradigms, older adults were just as capable as younger adults in conquer with the flanker interference even though no ERP compensatory responses were found. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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