Intraindividual coupling of daily stress and cognition

Article Abstract:

An examination of the coupling between naturally occurring stressful experiences and cognitive performance within individuals showed that within-persons (WP) variability in daily stress predicts WP variability on attention-demanding cognitive tasks. Younger and older adults performed worse on stress compared with nonstress days and tests to see whether daily fluctuations in stress influenced moment-to-moment performance variability showed that individuals were not only slow but also were more variable on stress compared with nonstress days.

United States, Science & research, Stress (Psychology), Cognitive psychology, Aging (Biology)

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Aging and the Stroop effect: a meta-analysis

Article Abstract:

There is no significant difference in the Stroop interference effect between younger and older adults. The presumed age-sensitivity of the interference effect in the Stroop task is merely a side effect of general slowing, thus suggesting that the type of inhibition tapped by the Stroop effect is not vulnerable to effects of aging. These were the main findings of a meta-analysis which used data from 20 studies comparing the two age groups on the Stroop effect.

Cognition

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