Aging and attenuated processing robustness: Evidence from cognitive and sensorimotor functioning
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Beitragende
Abstract
Background: Within-person, across-time variations in processes and performance are intrinsic to all aspects of human functioning. Objective: This article starts with a brief taxonomy of intraindividual dynamics. There are adaptive as well as non-adaptive types of intraindividual variations that unfold with different degrees of reversibility on different time scales and involve either single, or systems of, functions. Methods: Empirical findings regarding aging and a specific type of intraindividual variation, namely attenuated processing robustness, are then presented with respect to cognitive and sensorimotor functioning. Results: In both domains of functioning, old adults exhibit less robust functioning with a greater amount of week-to-week, day-to-day, or trial-by-trial fluctuations in their cognitive, walking, and postural control performances. Conclusion: Currently, the causes for the attenuation of processing robustness in cognitive and sensorimotor functioning are not well understood. Neu-rocomputational models are useful tools for exploring the tripartite relationships between the aging of neural information-processing fidelity, and cognitive, and sensorimotor processes.
Details
Originalsprache | Englisch |
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Seiten (von - bis) | 28-34 |
Seitenumfang | 7 |
Fachzeitschrift | Gerontology |
Jahrgang | 50 |
Ausgabenummer | 1 |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 2004 |
Peer-Review-Status | Ja |
Extern publiziert | Ja |
Externe IDs
PubMed | 14654724 |
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ORCID | /0000-0001-8409-5390/work/142254962 |
Schlagworte
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Schlagwörter
- Cognitive aging, Intraindividual variability, Neuronal noise, Processing fidelity, Sensorimotor functioning