Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34632300›Full record

ArticleJournal of Alzheimer's disease reports2021

Reaction Time Decomposition as a Tool to Study Subcortical Ischemic Vascular Cognitive Impairment.

Emma Richards, Andrea Tales, Antony Bayer, Jade E Norris, Claire J Hanley, Ian M Thornton

Open access · diamondAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 51% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Emma RichardsCentre for Innovative Ageing, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.
Andrea TalesCentre for Innovative Ageing, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.
Antony BayerDivision of Population Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Jade E NorrisBristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Claire J HanleyDepartment of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.
Ian M ThorntonDepartment of Cognitive Science, University of Malta, Malta.
Swansea University · GBCardiff University · GBUniversity of Bristol · GBUniversity of Malta · MT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe study of reaction time (RT) and its intraindividual variability (IIV) in aging, cognitive impairment, and dementia typically fails to investigate the processing stages that contribute to an overall response. Applying "mental chronometry" techniques makes it possible to separately assess the role of processing components during environmental interaction.

objectiveTo determine whether RT and IIV-decomposition techniques can shed light on the nature of underlying deficits in subcortical ischemic vascular cognitive impairment (VCI). Using a novel iPad task, we examined whether VCI deficits occur during both initiation and movement phases of a response, and whether they are equally reflected in both RT and IIV.

methodsTouch cancellation RT and its IIV were measured in a group of younger adults (

resultsWhereas cognitively healthy aging affected the speed (RT) of response initiation and movement but not its variability (IIV), VCI resulted in both slowed RT and increased IIV for both response phases. Furthermore, there were group differences with respect to response phase.

conclusionThese results indicate that IIV can be more sensitive than absolute RT in separating VCI from normal aging. Furthermore, compared to cognitively healthy aging, VCI was characterized by significant deficits in planning/initiating action as well as performing movements. Such deficits have important implications for real life actions such as driving safety, employment, and falls risk.

Indexed as

Agingattentioncerebral small vessel diseasedementiaintra-individual variabilitymental chronometryreaction timestimulus response/movement initiation & controlvascular cognitive impairment

Identifiers

PMID34632300
PMCPMC8461746
OpenAlexW3192706113

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.