Attention and Aging: A Functional Perspective

By Joan McDowd, Raymond J. Shaw. 2000

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Factors Affecting Speech Understanding in Older Adults (2010, background): “In addition, there is evidence in support of age-related declines in attention, a cognitive mechanism, which could contribute to the decline in dichotic speech-understanding performance (McDowd and Shaw 2000; Rogers 2000).”
Bilingualism, aging, and cognitive control: evidence from the Simon task. (2004, background): “Less effective attentional processes result in less efficient detection, discrimination, and selection of wanted stimuli, reduced resistance to interference, and impaired inhibition of information that is unimportant or irrelevant ( McDowd & Shaw, 2000 ).”
Bilingualism across the lifespan: The rise and fall of inhibitory control (2005, background): “Processes such as these have been shown to decline in normal cognitive aging, leaving older adults with less control over attention and less ability to inhibit prepotent and misleading responses (McDowd & Shaw, 2000, for review).”
Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism: How Linguistic Experience Leads to Cognitive Change (2007, background): “The cognitive functions responsible for effortful processing, including the executive functions of attention and inhibitory control, decline in speed and efficiency with normal healthy ageing (McDowd & Shaw, 2000 for review).”