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The Association between the Binding Processes of Working Memory and Vascular Risk Profile in Adults
Episodic buffer (EB), a key component of working memory, seems to have a rather complicated function as part of binding processes. Recent papers on the field claim that binding processes of working memory (WM) are assisted by attention and executive functions. On the same page, vascular pathology is...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8467480/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34573162 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11091140 |
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author | Bika, Eirini Moraitou, Despina Masoura, Elvira Kolios, George Papantoniou, Georgia Sofologi, Maria Papaliagkas, Vasileios Ntritsos, Georgios |
author_facet | Bika, Eirini Moraitou, Despina Masoura, Elvira Kolios, George Papantoniou, Georgia Sofologi, Maria Papaliagkas, Vasileios Ntritsos, Georgios |
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description | Episodic buffer (EB), a key component of working memory, seems to have a rather complicated function as part of binding processes. Recent papers on the field claim that binding processes of working memory (WM) are assisted by attention and executive functions. On the same page, vascular pathology is gaining more ground as the main underlying cause for many brain pathologies. Hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, lack of exercise and smoking are the most common risk factors that people of all ages suffer from and constitute the main vascular risk factors responsible for a possible decline in executive functions and attention. Thus, this research is an attempt to examine the relation between the binding functions of WM and the existence of vascular risk factors via a computerized test focusing on feature binding. The study comprised adults (n = 229) with and without vascular risk factors. The main tools used were a biomarker questionnaire and a feature binding test (FBT). The results showed that participants who report suffering from one or more vascular risk factors had significantly lower performance on specific subtasks of the FBT in comparison to the participants who were healthy. This allows us to assume that there might be a positive association between feature binding and a vascular risk profile in adults, and such a test could be a useful diagnostic tool for early cognitive impairment due to incipient vascular pathology. |
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spelling | pubmed-84674802021-09-27 The Association between the Binding Processes of Working Memory and Vascular Risk Profile in Adults Bika, Eirini Moraitou, Despina Masoura, Elvira Kolios, George Papantoniou, Georgia Sofologi, Maria Papaliagkas, Vasileios Ntritsos, Georgios Brain Sci Article Episodic buffer (EB), a key component of working memory, seems to have a rather complicated function as part of binding processes. Recent papers on the field claim that binding processes of working memory (WM) are assisted by attention and executive functions. On the same page, vascular pathology is gaining more ground as the main underlying cause for many brain pathologies. Hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, lack of exercise and smoking are the most common risk factors that people of all ages suffer from and constitute the main vascular risk factors responsible for a possible decline in executive functions and attention. Thus, this research is an attempt to examine the relation between the binding functions of WM and the existence of vascular risk factors via a computerized test focusing on feature binding. The study comprised adults (n = 229) with and without vascular risk factors. The main tools used were a biomarker questionnaire and a feature binding test (FBT). The results showed that participants who report suffering from one or more vascular risk factors had significantly lower performance on specific subtasks of the FBT in comparison to the participants who were healthy. This allows us to assume that there might be a positive association between feature binding and a vascular risk profile in adults, and such a test could be a useful diagnostic tool for early cognitive impairment due to incipient vascular pathology. MDPI 2021-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8467480/ /pubmed/34573162 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11091140 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Bika, Eirini Moraitou, Despina Masoura, Elvira Kolios, George Papantoniou, Georgia Sofologi, Maria Papaliagkas, Vasileios Ntritsos, Georgios The Association between the Binding Processes of Working Memory and Vascular Risk Profile in Adults |
title | The Association between the Binding Processes of Working Memory and Vascular Risk Profile in Adults |
title_full | The Association between the Binding Processes of Working Memory and Vascular Risk Profile in Adults |
title_fullStr | The Association between the Binding Processes of Working Memory and Vascular Risk Profile in Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | The Association between the Binding Processes of Working Memory and Vascular Risk Profile in Adults |
title_short | The Association between the Binding Processes of Working Memory and Vascular Risk Profile in Adults |
title_sort | association between the binding processes of working memory and vascular risk profile in adults |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8467480/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34573162 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11091140 |
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