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ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2023

Human ageing is associated with more rigid concept spaces.

Sean Devine, Cassandra Neumann, David Levari, Ben Eppinger

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Article in Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 49% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Diminished State Space Theory of Human Aging.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025
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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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sean DevineDepartment of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. seandamiandevine@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0445-2763
Cassandra NeumannDepartment of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
David LevariDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Ben EppingerDepartment of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Concordia University · CAHarvard University · USMcGill University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prevalence-induced concept change describes a cognitive mechanism by which someone's definition of a concept shifts as the prevalence of instances of that concept changes. While this phenomenon has been established in young adults, it is unclear how it affects older adults. In this study, we explore how prevalence-induced concept change affects older adults' lower-level, perceptual, and higher-order, ethical judgements. We find that older adults are less sensitive to prevalence-induced concept change than younger adults across both domains. Using computational modeling, we demonstrate that these age-related changes in judgements reflect more cautious and deliberate responding in older adults. Based on these findings, we argue that while overly cautious responding by older adults may be maladaptive in some cognitive domains, in the case of prevalence-induced concept change, it might be protective against biased judgements.

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AgingJudgmentAgedComputer SimulationHumansYoung AdultCognitive agingComputational modelingConcepts and categories

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PMID36253591
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