Age, Executive Function, and Social Decision Making: A Dorsolateral Prefrontal Theory of Cognitive Aging.

Current neuropsychological models propose that some age-related cognitive changes are due to frontal-lobe deterioration. However, these models have not considered the possible subdivision of the frontal lobes into the dorsolateral and ventromedial regions. This study assessed the age effects on 3 ta...

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Publicado en:Psychology & Aging Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 598 - 610
Autores principales: MacPherson, Sarah E., Phillips, Louise H., Della Sala, Sergio
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Publicado: American Psychological Association December 2002
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        Short-term memory
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        Brain function localization
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      ab: Current neuropsychological models propose that some age-related cognitive changes are due to frontal-lobe deterioration. However, these models have not considered the possible subdivision of the frontal lobes into the dorsolateral and ventromedial regions. This study assessed the age effects on 3 tasks of executive function and working memory, tasks dependent on dorsolateral prefrontal dysfunction; and 3 tasks of emotion and social decision making, tasks dependent on ventromedial prefrontal dysfunction. Age-related differences in performance were found on all tasks dependent on dorsolateral prefrontal dysfunction. In contrast, age-related differences were not found on the majority of the tasks dependent on ventromedial prefrontal dysfunction. The results support a specific dorsolateral prefrontal theory of cognitive changes with age, rather than a global decline in frontal-lobe function. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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