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Can executive control be influenced by performance feedback? Two experimental studies with younger and older adults

Executive control describes a wide range of cognitive processes which are critical for the goal-directed regulation of stimulus processing and action regulation. Previous studies have shown that executive control performance declines with age but yet, it is still not clear whether different internal...

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Autores principales: Drueke, Barbara, Boecker, Maren, Mainz, Verena, Gauggel, Siegfried, Mungard, Lydia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3328125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22529793
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00090
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author Drueke, Barbara
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Mainz, Verena
Gauggel, Siegfried
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description Executive control describes a wide range of cognitive processes which are critical for the goal-directed regulation of stimulus processing and action regulation. Previous studies have shown that executive control performance declines with age but yet, it is still not clear whether different internal and external factors—as performance feedback and age—influence these cognitive processes and how they might interact with each other. Therefore, we investigated feedback effects in the flanker task in young as well as in older adults in two experiments. Performance feedback significantly improved executive performance in younger adults at the expense of errors. In older adults, feedback also led to higher error rates, but had no significant effect on executive performance which might be due to stronger interference. Results indicate that executive functions can be positively influenced by performance feedback in younger adults, but not necessarily in older adults.
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spelling pubmed-33281252012-04-23 Can executive control be influenced by performance feedback? Two experimental studies with younger and older adults Drueke, Barbara Boecker, Maren Mainz, Verena Gauggel, Siegfried Mungard, Lydia Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Executive control describes a wide range of cognitive processes which are critical for the goal-directed regulation of stimulus processing and action regulation. Previous studies have shown that executive control performance declines with age but yet, it is still not clear whether different internal and external factors—as performance feedback and age—influence these cognitive processes and how they might interact with each other. Therefore, we investigated feedback effects in the flanker task in young as well as in older adults in two experiments. Performance feedback significantly improved executive performance in younger adults at the expense of errors. In older adults, feedback also led to higher error rates, but had no significant effect on executive performance which might be due to stronger interference. Results indicate that executive functions can be positively influenced by performance feedback in younger adults, but not necessarily in older adults. Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3328125/ /pubmed/22529793 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00090 Text en Copyright © 2012 Drueke, Boecker, Mainz, Gauggel and Mungard. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited.
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title Can executive control be influenced by performance feedback? Two experimental studies with younger and older adults
title_full Can executive control be influenced by performance feedback? Two experimental studies with younger and older adults
title_fullStr Can executive control be influenced by performance feedback? Two experimental studies with younger and older adults
title_full_unstemmed Can executive control be influenced by performance feedback? Two experimental studies with younger and older adults
title_short Can executive control be influenced by performance feedback? Two experimental studies with younger and older adults
title_sort can executive control be influenced by performance feedback? two experimental studies with younger and older adults
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3328125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22529793
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