Age-related preservation of top-down attentional guidance during visual search

Article Abstract:

Research was done on younger (19-27 years of age) and older (60-82 years of age) adults to perform a letter search task in which a color singleton was either noninformative (baseline condition) or highly informative (guided condition) regarding target location. In conclusion, under conditions that equate the physical structure of individual displays, top-down attentional guidance can be at least as effective for older adults as for younger adults.

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Adult age differences in the implicit and explicit components of top-down attentional guidance during visual speech

Article Abstract:

Two experiments were conducted to investigate adult age differences in the explicit and implicit components of top-down attentional guidance during discrimination of a target singleton. The results of suggested that some forms of top-down attentional control were preserved as a function of adult age and might operate in a compensatory manner.

Cognition in old age, Old age cognition, Selectivity (Psychology)

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Overriding age differences in attentional capture with top-down processing

Article Abstract:

The extent to which adult-age differences in the capacity to look for singleton targets using special cues is influenced by top-down information is investigated.

Middle aged persons, Analysis, Young adults, Age (Psychology), Age differences (Psychology), Attention-seeking, Attention-seeking behavior, Attention-seeking behaviour

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