Aging and Executive Control: Reports of a Demise Greatly Exaggerated:

摘要: I report a series of meta-analyses on aging and executive control. A first set analyses failed to find evidence for specific age-related deficits in tasks selective attention (inhibition return, negative priming, flanker, Stroop) or tapping local task-shifting costs (reading with distractors is an exception) but found divided (dual tasking global costs). The second examined whether control explained any variance complex cognition (episodic memory, reasoning, spatial abilities) over beyond the effects speed working memory; it did not. Thus, purported decline advancing age clearly not general, may ultimately play only small role explaining cognition.