ArticleNeuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition2020
Age doesn't matter much: hybrid visual and memory search is preserved in older adults.
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- Age-invariant benefits of spatiotemporal predictions amidst distraction during dynamic visual search.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Contributions of distractor dwelling, skipping, and revisiting to age differences in visual search.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal predictions guide attention throughout the adult lifespan.NPJ science of learning · 2024Article
- Age-related differences in frontoparietal activation for target and distractor singletons during visual search.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Incidental Learning of Temporal and Spatial Associations in Hybrid Search.Visual cognition · 2023Article
- Testing the effects of perceptual grouping on visual search in older adults.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Order, please! Explicit sequence learning in hybrid search in younger and older age.Memory & cognition · 2021Article
- Age-related changes in visual search: manipulation of colour cues based on cone contrast and opponent modulation space.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Hybrid foraging search in younger and older age.Psychology and aging · 2019Article
- Investigating the Potential Role of Ecological Validity on Change-Detection Memory Tasks and Distractor Processing in Younger and Older Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
We tested younger and older observers' attention and long-term memory functions in a "hybrid search" task, in which observers look through visual displays for instances of any of several types of targets held in memory. Apart from a general slowing, search efficiency did not change with age. In both age groups, reaction times increased linearly with the visual set size and logarithmically with the memory set size, with similar relative costs of increasing load (Experiment 1). We replicated the finding and further showed that performance remained comparable between age groups when familiarity cues were made irrelevant (Experiment 2) and target-context associations were to be retrieved (Experiment 3). Our findings are at variance with theories of cognitive aging that propose age-specific deficits in attention and memory. As hybrid search resembles many real-world searches, our results might be relevant to improve the ecological validity of assessing age-related cognitive decline.
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