Executive Functions in Normal Aging

An Examination of Script Sequencing, Script Sorting, and Script Monitoring

Bibliographic Data

ID12440819
AuthorsPhilippe Allain (0000-0003-0668-0986, Université d'Angers, corresponding author), Gilles Berrut, Frédérique Etcharry‐Bouyx (0000-0002-5892-9782), F Etcharry-Bouyx, J Barre (0000-0002-3537-2168), Frédéric Dubas (0000-0003-1488-5375), Didier Le Gall (0000-0003-0506-8787), D L Gall
Year2007
Volume62
Issue3
PagesP187-P190
Publication date2007-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journals of Gerontology Series B (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1079-5014 • E-ISSN: 1758-5368
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/geronb/62.3.p187
PMID17507587
OpenAlexW2153858247
LanguageEN
References cited17

We explored the effect of age on executive functions by using script-sequencing and script-sorting tasks. Older participants (n = 39), relative to young subjects (n = 40), committed more errors in script sequencing. However, there was no difference in performance between elderly and young subjects in excluding irrelevant items. These results suggest that aging generates impairment in the ability to produce temporally coherent sequences without deficit in the ability to eliminate distractors in the action domain. We proposed that the sequencing difficulties in elderly participants could be due to working-memory and shifting deficits mediated by changes in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Algorithm · Audiology · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex · Executive dysfunction · Executive functions · Neuropsychology · Prefrontal cortex · Sorting · Wisconsin Card Sorting Test · Working memory · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Medicine · Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neuroscience · Psychology