SynthesisThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2022
How Does Aging Affect Social Attention? A Test of Competing Theories Using Multilevel Meta-Analysis.
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- Partially Different Mechanisms of Social and Nonsocial Attention: Evidence From Changes in Cueing Effects and Underlying Frontal Cortex Processing Over Time.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Social perceptions, age stereotypes, and health behaviours: an economic and public health perspective from China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Increased arterial stiffness is associated with poorer social cognition in older age.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The celebrity effect on gaze following in older and young adults.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2024Article
- Uncovering the cognitive mechanisms underlying the gaze cueing effect.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- Partner-directed gaze and co-speech hand gestures: effects of age, hearing loss and noise.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Preserved learning of implicit regularities with predictive social cues in older adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Social Frailty in Late Adulthood: Social Cognitive and Psychological Well-Being Correlates.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Aging Is Associated With Multidirectional Changes in Social Cognition: Findings From an Adult Life-Span Sample Ranging From 18 to 101 Years.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Can the robot "see" what I see? Robot gaze drives attention depending on mental state attribution.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The knowledge domain of cognitive neuroscience of aging: A Scientometric and bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Review
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Abstract
objectivesThe present study provides a meta-analytic assessment of how gaze-cued attention-a core social-cognitive process-is influenced by normal adult aging.
methodsA multilevel meta-analysis of standardized mean changes was conducted on gaze-cueing effects. Age effects were quantified as standardized mean differences in gaze-cueing effect sizes between young and older adult samples.
resultsWe identified 82 gaze-cueing effects (k = 26, N = 919 participants). Of these, 37 were associated with young adults (k = 12, n = 438) and 45 with older adults (k = 14, n = 481). Relative to younger adults, older adults had a reduced gaze-cueing effect overall, g = -0.59, with this age effect greater when the cues were predictive, g = -3.24, rather than nonpredictive, g = -0.78. DISCUSSION: These results provide the clearest evidence to date that adult aging is associated with a reduction in gaze-cued attention. The results also speak to potential mechanisms of this age effect. In line with cognitive decline models of aging, it was demonstrated that when gaze cues were predictive, only younger adults seem to benefit, suggesting that older adults exhibit a particularly reduced capacity to use gaze cues volitionally.
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