Jos J Adam
Biographic Data
| ID | 5758055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jos J Adam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jos J |
| FAMILY NAME | Adam |
| SIGNATURE | ADAM J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7999-4033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring the effects of mapping rule switching on motor preparation in young and older adults
This study explored the effect of mapping rule switching on motor preparation in young and older adults. Motor preparation was indexed by performance in the finger cuing task, which is a cued 4-choice reaction time (RT) task requiring a single keypress with 1 of 4 fingers (index and middle fingers of both hands). Mapping rule switching required switching between two possible mapping rules implemented via spatially compatible procues and spatially…
Crossmodal response precueing
Objectives This study examined the impact of crossmodal response precueing on action preparation in young and older adults. Methods Young (n = 37; 18–30 years) and older (n = 36; 60–77 years) adults performed a crossmodal visual-auditory version of the precueing paradigm, using a 4-choice task with 3 precue types. Informative precues either referred to response modality (manual vs vocal) or abstract spatial response feature (left vs right key pre…
Proactive motor control within and between hands
Several studies have reported that proactive motor control in a cued four-finger choice reaction task proceeds more efficiently with a 2-hands motor set (two fingers on each hand) than with a 1-hand motor set (four fingers on one hand). According to the Grouping Model, this is because the 2-hands motor set recruits distinct left and right hand representations located in separate cerebral hemispheres, whereas the 1-hand motor set recruits partiall…
Switch hands! Mapping proactive and reactive cognitive control across the life span
We investigated the effects of age on proactive and reactive cognitive control in a large population sample of 809 individuals, ranging in age between 5 and 97 years. For that purpose, we used an anticue paradigm, which required a consistent remapping of cue location and response hand: Left-sided cues required right-hand responses and vice versa. After a random preparation interval of 100-850 ms, these anticues were followed by a target stimulus,…
Automatic Selective Attention as a Function of Sensory Modality in Aging
The results suggest that the modality hypothesis of age-related differences in selective attention does not extend into the realm of automatic selective attention
Spared Within-Hands but Impaired Between-Hands Response Preparation in Aging
These findings demonstrate a robust, structural difference in the maximal preparation benefit that older adults can achieve when preparing two fingers on two hands but not on one hand. These outcomes are discussed in terms of several theories of cognitive aging
Selective Reaching
The authors investigated distracter effects on the kinematics of reaching movements to determine when during reaching responses (reaction time, time to peak velocity, time after peak velocity, or peak velocity) distracter interference occurred and how target-distracter separation affected the locus of interference. Participants moved a pen on a digitizing tablet toward a target appearing with or without a distracter. With a small target-distracte…
Effects of Distractor Load and Temporal Target-Distractor Separation on Numerical Comparison Performance
Effects of distractor load and temporal separation between target and distractor onset were studied in a selective attention task. Two experiments required 128 participants to decide as quickly and accurately as possible which of two spatially separated one-digit numerals was larger. Targets were either preceded or succeeded by distractors with intervals of 0, 33, 83, 133, 183, and 233 msec. In Exp. 1, the target digits could appear with 0, 1, 2,…
Measurement of Cognitive Load in Instructional Research
The results of two of our recent empirical studies were considered to assess the usefulness of subjective ratings and cardiovascular measures of mental effort in instructional research. Based on its reliability and sensitivity, the subjective rating-scale technique met the requirements to be useful in instructional research whereas the cardiovascular technique did not. It was concluded that the usefulness of both measurement techniques in instruc…
Switch hands! Mapping proactive and reactive cognitive control across the life span
We investigated the effects of age on proactive and reactive cognitive control in a large population sample of 809 individuals, ranging in age between 5 and 97 years. For that purpose, we used an anticue paradigm, which required a consistent remapping of cue location and response hand: Left-sided cues required right-hand responses and vice versa. After a random preparation interval of 100-850 ms, these anticues were followed by a target stimulus,…
Spared Within-Hands but Impaired Between-Hands Response Preparation in Aging
These findings demonstrate a robust, structural difference in the maximal preparation benefit that older adults can achieve when preparing two fingers on two hands but not on one hand. These outcomes are discussed in terms of several theories of cognitive aging
Measurement of Cognitive Load in Instructional Research
The results of two of our recent empirical studies were considered to assess the usefulness of subjective ratings and cardiovascular measures of mental effort in instructional research. Based on its reliability and sensitivity, the subjective rating-scale technique met the requirements to be useful in instructional research whereas the cardiovascular technique did not. It was concluded that the usefulness of both measurement techniques in instruc…
Effects of Distractor Load and Temporal Target-Distractor Separation on Numerical Comparison Performance
Effects of distractor load and temporal separation between target and distractor onset were studied in a selective attention task. Two experiments required 128 participants to decide as quickly and accurately as possible which of two spatially separated one-digit numerals was larger. Targets were either preceded or succeeded by distractors with intervals of 0, 33, 83, 133, 183, and 233 msec. In Exp. 1, the target digits could appear with 0, 1, 2,…
Selective Reaching
The authors investigated distracter effects on the kinematics of reaching movements to determine when during reaching responses (reaction time, time to peak velocity, time after peak velocity, or peak velocity) distracter interference occurred and how target-distracter separation affected the locus of interference. Participants moved a pen on a digitizing tablet toward a target appearing with or without a distracter. With a small target-distracte…
Automatic Selective Attention as a Function of Sensory Modality in Aging
The results suggest that the modality hypothesis of age-related differences in selective attention does not extend into the realm of automatic selective attention
Spared Within-Hands but Impaired Between-Hands Response Preparation in Aging
These findings demonstrate a robust, structural difference in the maximal preparation benefit that older adults can achieve when preparing two fingers on two hands but not on one hand. These outcomes are discussed in terms of several theories of cognitive aging
Switch hands! Mapping proactive and reactive cognitive control across the life span
We investigated the effects of age on proactive and reactive cognitive control in a large population sample of 809 individuals, ranging in age between 5 and 97 years. For that purpose, we used an anticue paradigm, which required a consistent remapping of cue location and response hand: Left-sided cues required right-hand responses and vice versa. After a random preparation interval of 100-850 ms, these anticues were followed by a target stimulus,…
Proactive motor control within and between hands
Several studies have reported that proactive motor control in a cued four-finger choice reaction task proceeds more efficiently with a 2-hands motor set (two fingers on each hand) than with a 1-hand motor set (four fingers on one hand). According to the Grouping Model, this is because the 2-hands motor set recruits distinct left and right hand representations located in separate cerebral hemispheres, whereas the 1-hand motor set recruits partiall…
Exploring the effects of mapping rule switching on motor preparation in young and older adults
This study explored the effect of mapping rule switching on motor preparation in young and older adults. Motor preparation was indexed by performance in the finger cuing task, which is a cued 4-choice reaction time (RT) task requiring a single keypress with 1 of 4 fingers (index and middle fingers of both hands). Mapping rule switching required switching between two possible mapping rules implemented via spatially compatible procues and spatially…
Crossmodal response precueing
Objectives This study examined the impact of crossmodal response precueing on action preparation in young and older adults. Methods Young (n = 37; 18–30 years) and older (n = 36; 60–77 years) adults performed a crossmodal visual-auditory version of the precueing paradigm, using a 4-choice task with 3 precue types. Informative precues either referred to response modality (manual vs vocal) or abstract spatial response feature (left vs right key pre…
Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (6 works) · Audiology (5 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Neuroscience (5 works) · Motor Control and Adaptation (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works)