Executive Functions in Normal Aging

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

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ID12440819
AutoresPhilippe Allain (0000-0003-0668-0986, Université d'Angers, autor de correspondencia), 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
Año2007
Volumen62
Número3
PáginasP187-P190
Fecha de publicación2007-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journals of Gerontology Series B (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1079-5014 • E-ISSN: 1758-5368
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/geronb/62.3.p187
PMID17507587
OpenAlexW2153858247
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas17

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