ArticleNeuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition2021
When and how did you go wrong? Characterizing mild functional difficulties in older adults during an everyday task.
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- The Virtual Kitchen Challenge-Version 2: Validation of a Digital Assessment of Everyday Function in Older Adults.JMIR aging · 2026Article
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- Subtle inefficiencies in everyday tasks indicate early functional difficulties in older adults: Implications for clinical practice and research.The Clinical neuropsychologist · 2026Article
- A Pilot Study of the Effect of Repeated Practice in Virtual Reality on Everyday Action Performance in Real Life.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2025Article
- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment: Addressing Unmet Healthcare Needs in Older Adults.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Assessing everyday action in young adult athletes using the Virtual Kitchen Challenge: Relations with conventional cognitive tests.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2025Article
- Predicting Trajectories of Everyday Functioning in Adults Aging with HIV Using Latent Growth Mixture Modeling.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- Error monitoring in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: Cognitive correlates and relationship to measures of everyday function.Neuropsychology · 2023Article
- The goal-control model: An integrated neuropsychological framework to explain impaired performance of everyday activities.Neuropsychology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Mild functional difficulties associated with cognitive aging may be reliably measured by coding "micro-errors" during everyday tasks, like meal preparation. Micro-errors made by 25 older adult and 48 younger adults were coded on four dimensions to evaluate the influence of: 1) poor error monitoring; 2) goal decay; 3) competition for response selection when switching to a new subtask; and 4) interference from distractor objects. Micro-errors made by young adults under a dual task load also were analyzed to determine the influence of overall performance level. Older adults' micro-errors were observed when switching to a new subtask and to unrelated distractors. Slowed error monitoring and goal decay also influenced micro-errors in older adults, but not significantly more so than younger adults under the dual task. Interventions to reduce interference from distractors and to increase attention at critical choice points during tasks may optimize everyday functioning and preclude decline in older adults.
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