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Title: | Age-related response speed deficits arise from specific impairments in sensory evidence accumulation rate |
Authors: | External author(s) only |
Keywords: | Cognition Older People |
Issue Date: | Nov-2021 |
Citation: | Méadhbh B. Brosnan, Megan H. O’Neill, Gerard M. Loughnane, Daniel J. Pearce, Bryce Fleming, Trevor T.-J. Chong, Anna C. Nobre, Redmond G. O Connell, Mark A. Bellgrove. Age-related response speed deficits arise from specific impairments in sensory evidence accumulation rate. https://www.biorxiv.org |
Abstract: | Older adults exposed to enriched environments (EE) maintain relatively higher levels of cognitive function, even in the face of compromised markers of brain health. Response speed (RS) is often used as a simple proxy to measure the preservation of global cognitive function in older adults. However, it is unknown which specific sensory, decision, and/or motor processes provide the most specific indices of neurocognitive health. Here, using a simple decision task with electroencephalography (EEG), we found that the efficiency with which an individual accumulates sensory evidence was a critical determinant of the extent to which RS was preserved in older adults. Moreover, the mitigating influence of EE on age-related RS declines was most pronounced when evidence accumulation rates were shallowest. Our results suggest that EEG metrics of evidence accumulation may index neurocognitive vulnerability of the ageing brain. |
Description: | Preprint |
URI: | https://oxfordhealth-nhs.archive.knowledgearc.net/handle/123456789/1006 |
Appears in Collections: | Neuroscience |
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