ArticleThe European journal of neuroscience2022
Age-related differences in bottom-up and top-down attention: Insights from EEG and MEG.
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- Age-Related Decline in Disengaging Spatial Attention in Physiological Aging.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Longitudinal Evidence for Attenuated Local-Global Deviance Detection as a Precursor of Working Memory Decline.eNeuro · 2023Article
- Age-related differences in bottom-up and top-down attention: Insights from EEG and MEG.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Attention operates through top-down and bottom-up processes, and a balance between these processes is crucial for daily tasks. Imperilling such balance could explain ageing-associated attentional problems such as exacerbated distractibility. In this study, we aimed to characterize this enhanced distractibility by investigating the impact of ageing upon event-related components associated with top-down and bottom-up attentional processes. MEG and EEG data were acquired from 14 older and 14 younger healthy adults while performing a task that conjointly evaluates top-down and bottom-up attention. Event-related components were analysed on sensor and source levels. In comparison with the younger group, the older mainly displayed (1) reduced target anticipation processes (reduced CMV), (2) increased early target processing (larger P50 but smaller N1) and (3) increased processing of early distracting sounds (larger N1 but reduced P3a), followed by a (4) prolonged reorientation towards the main task (larger RON). Taken together, our results suggest that the enhanced distractibility in ageing could stem from top-down deficits, in particular from reduced inhibitory and reorientation processes.
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