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Older adults preserve accuracy but not precision in explicit and implicit rhythmic timing

Aging brings with it several forms of neurophysiological and cognitive deterioration, but whether a decline in temporal processing is part of the aging process is unclear. The current study investigated whether this timing deficit has a cause independent of those of memory and attention using rhythm...

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Autores principales: Gallego Hiroyasu, Elisa M., Yotsumoto, Yuko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7571673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33075063
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240863
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description Aging brings with it several forms of neurophysiological and cognitive deterioration, but whether a decline in temporal processing is part of the aging process is unclear. The current study investigated whether this timing deficit has a cause independent of those of memory and attention using rhythmic stimuli that reduce the demand for these higher cognitive functions. In Study 1, participants took part in two rhythmic timing tasks: explicit and implicit. Participants had to distinguish regular from irregular sequences while processing temporal information explicitly or implicitly. Results showed that while the accuracy in the implicit timing task was preserved, older adults had more noise in their performance in the explicit and implicit tasks. In Study 2, participants took part in a dual-implicit task to explore whether the performance of temporal tasks differed with increasing task difficulty. We found that increasing task difficulty magnifies age-related differences.
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spelling pubmed-75716732020-10-26 Older adults preserve accuracy but not precision in explicit and implicit rhythmic timing Gallego Hiroyasu, Elisa M. Yotsumoto, Yuko PLoS One Research Article Aging brings with it several forms of neurophysiological and cognitive deterioration, but whether a decline in temporal processing is part of the aging process is unclear. The current study investigated whether this timing deficit has a cause independent of those of memory and attention using rhythmic stimuli that reduce the demand for these higher cognitive functions. In Study 1, participants took part in two rhythmic timing tasks: explicit and implicit. Participants had to distinguish regular from irregular sequences while processing temporal information explicitly or implicitly. Results showed that while the accuracy in the implicit timing task was preserved, older adults had more noise in their performance in the explicit and implicit tasks. In Study 2, participants took part in a dual-implicit task to explore whether the performance of temporal tasks differed with increasing task difficulty. We found that increasing task difficulty magnifies age-related differences. Public Library of Science 2020-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7571673/ /pubmed/33075063 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240863 Text en © 2020 Gallego Hiroyasu, Yotsumoto http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Older adults preserve accuracy but not precision in explicit and implicit rhythmic timing
title Older adults preserve accuracy but not precision in explicit and implicit rhythmic timing
title_full Older adults preserve accuracy but not precision in explicit and implicit rhythmic timing
title_fullStr Older adults preserve accuracy but not precision in explicit and implicit rhythmic timing
title_full_unstemmed Older adults preserve accuracy but not precision in explicit and implicit rhythmic timing
title_short Older adults preserve accuracy but not precision in explicit and implicit rhythmic timing
title_sort older adults preserve accuracy but not precision in explicit and implicit rhythmic timing
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7571673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33075063
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240863
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