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Conversion of light to neural signals

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light passes through cornea then through pupil (which changes size with iris to control light amount), lens focus light onto retina, retina converts light energy to nerve signal, optic nerve carries signal to brain

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What is presbyopia?

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Age-related loss of visual acuity (sharpness)

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What are the causes of age related vision loss?

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cornea less transparent/sensitive, lens hardens, pupils become smaller/react slower, muscles become less able to rotate eye

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Why are atypical age-related vision concerns not a cause of age related vision loss?

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Atypical vision concerns occur more frequently with age but are not an effect of age

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Selective Attention

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the ability to both focus on information of relevance to the organism AND inhibit or ignore info which is task-irrelevant

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Divided Attention

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The ability to concurrently attend and process info from different locations in the auditory, visual, or somatosensory environment or concurrently perform or switch among different skills or tasks (driving)

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Overt Attention

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selectively processing one location over others by moving the eyes to point at that location

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Covert Attention

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paying attention without moving the eyes…looking at a fixation and putting things in the periphery

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Top-down Attention

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EF process
Goal directed; a person’s ability to intentionally and selectively process info in the environment
Someone decides what to focus on

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Bottom-up Attention

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EF process
Stimulus driven; the control of attention by characteristics of the environment, independent of an observer’s intentions, expectancies, or experience
ex: loud sound in the other room

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Alerting (inc. age effects)

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state of enhanced vigilance and preparedness to respond to incoming information

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Orienting (inc. age effects)

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selection of information from sensory inputs (shifting resources)
taking one’s attention and moving it a physical location or concept based on a cue

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Executive Inhibitory Control (inc. age effects)

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top-down processes involved in inhibitory function (deleting conflict and inhibiting, distracting or conflicting info)
INHIBITION, ignoring or deleting info that is not necessary

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Task-switching (inc. age effects)

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rapid switching between different tasks or skills, often with overlapping stimuli and responses
Reduce performance and less accurate

YAs: increased recruitment of prefrontal regions during dual vs single tasks

OAs: compensation during single tasks, over recruit PFC, no difference between dual and single tasks (ceiling effect)

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Dual-tasking (inc. age effects)

What is the role of experience/expertise?

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dual tasking/multitasking is the attempt at concurrent performance of different tasks…
expertise can reduce age-related deficits in attention

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Global switch costs (inc. age effects- behavioral and neural)

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the efficiency of maintaining multiple task sets in working memory of next tasks
OAs > YAs which is attributed to impairments in working memory and attentional capacity…greater switch costs in frontal lobe
dif. between homogeneous and heterogeneous and working memory

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Local switch costs (inc. age effects- behavioral and neural)

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within heterogeneous, sometimes you switch and sometimes you don’t
attention control processes responses
Age effects are nearly eliminated when slowing is controlled for
memory capacity is same but making that switch is the differences
OA > YA when they exist

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Executive function

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Control station of brain and control processes (other cog. processes, behavior, emotion, impulses), limited by a person’s ability, and opposed to automatic processes
EF IS A MODERATOR IN A MODEL BECAUSE THE RELATION BETWEEN AGE AND MEMORY IS GREATER FOR PEOPLE WITH LOW EF

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Dimensions of EF - Unity vs. Diversity

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Unity: common EF factor
Diversity: multiple dimensions of EF

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Shifting

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moving from one thing to another

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Updating/monitoring

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Keeping an eye on process going on and keeping an eye one updating if needed

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Inhibition

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Something that holds you back or restrains you from doing or thinking something

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EF as a mediator of age effects

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MEDIATOR: age related impairments in cognitive performance can be fully or partially explained by OAs EF deficits

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EF as a moderator of age effects

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MODERATOR: The negative relation between age and performance is greater for OAs with greater EF deficits, the strength of arrow depends on strength of relationship, variability is huge, which influences how age effects accuracy

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Frontal-executive hypothesis of cognitive aging

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Says age is associated with disproportionate atrophy and function changes in the PFC leading to EF deficits

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Where do we see inhibitory deficits?

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Individual differences like age (development and aging) and neurological status
Intra-individual variability like developmental (PFC does not develop fully until early 20s) and Time of day circadian rhythm (inhibition impaired during “off times”)

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Controlling access to attention’s focus

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Activation in response to familiar cues and thoughts is largely automatic as it is spread of activation through brain, equivalent across people and circumstances (does not change with age)…In order to focus, we move attention in a controlled way and focus on things that matter

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Deleting irrelevant information from attention and working memory

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Removing the spot around the spotlight, which can be difficult of OAs, once one narrows in you should delete things from the space that is not important…OAs CANNOT do this bc they have a hard time shutting out other info…also have a hard time deleting info once it is in their working memory

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Suppressing or restraining strong but inappropriate responses

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Some responses and concepts are strongly activated by a retrieval cue, but are incorrect or inappropriate given the context, must be inhibited…difficult for OAs

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Spread of activation

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Has to do with their spotlight

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Decreased activation

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spotlight not as strong, with same mental space

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Decreased inhibition

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everything else around is not getting dimmed down in the same way, bright spot light but everything else is still lit up

Only when there is competition between spotlight and surrounding space age differences are shown

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Pros of decreased inhibition

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If the information that is still obtained is relevant

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Cons of decreased inhibition

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If the distractor is harmful and not relevant…aka taking up working memory to the task

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Factors contributing to inhibitory deficits

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Individual differences and Intra-individual differences (developmental…20 years old and circadian rhythm)

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Absolute sensory threshold

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The amount of info required for a stimulus to be detected

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Differential sensory threshold

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The amount needed to detect a difference between two stimuli (JND)

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Conversion of sound waves to neural signals

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Sound waves enter ear at pinna and travel down ear canal, waves vibrate eardrum which vibrates ossicles causing fluid in cochlea to ripple, hair cells along cochlea allow vibrations to be changed into nerve signals, then signals carried to brain by auditory nerve ….hair cells have dif frequencies

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Presbycusis

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Age-Related hearing loss

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Causes of age-related hearing loss

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Impacted ear wax, thickened ear drunk, damage to ossicles, damage to sensory hair cells

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HAROLD

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Hemispheric Asymmetry Reduction in Older Adults.

OAs over recruit the other side of the brain, compensation by reorganization

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PASA

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Posterior to Anterior Shift in Aging.
OAs recruit interior regions and under recruit posterior sensory regions, compensation by selection…
Univariate analysis: age is associated with inc. recruitment of PFC during long-term memory and short term memory … PFC contained less info about cognitive outcome as function of age …MVB adding PFC does not improve model

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CRUNCH

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Compensation Related Utilization or Neural Circuits Hypothesis.
Inefficiencies cause the aging brain to over recruit neural resources, as demand increases a resource ceiling is reached…leading to age-related decrements for harder tasks, compensation by up regulation.
overcompensation and recruit regions more but keep level of YAs but hit ceiling and at high level of difficulty and not be able to do the task aka decrease in performance.

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STAC/STAC-r

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Scaffolding Theory of Aging and Cognition.
operates to counteract and adverse effects of neural degradation, saying influencing a person’s ability to utilize compensatory scaffolding (things that contribute to reserve…exercise, edu, healthy eating…increase ability which helps to mitigate age related deterioration.

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Dedifferentiation

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Compensation is increased recruitment in response to a gap. Greater similarity or reduced distinctiveness of neural responses, such that brain activation patterns are less specific to a particular type of input or mental state…Impairment of age.
Measured with receptive field mapping.
Explains HAROLD but check to see how it is tied to performance.
It is not ubiquitous because we do not see it across the entire cortex

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Attenuation

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Brain regions can be specialized for particular features, stimuli, or processes.
The specialization decreases with age…THE WEAKENING IN STRENGTH, VALUE, OR QUALITY OF A STIMULUS

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Broadening

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exploratory thoughts or actions

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Cellular vs. population level measures of dedifferentiation

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Cellular: Receptive Field Mapping, item FEATURES (orientation, frequencies, etc.)
Population: (of neurons) fMRI bold amplitude…differentiation index, MVPA,

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Hyperdifferentiation (where?)

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Anterior temporal lobe

There is a shift when other brain regions show support in tasks than other regions

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BOLD amplitude

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Differentiation Index (Difference in BOLD), Repetition Suppression

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Dopamine binding

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Critical for higher order cog. function, reduced dopamine binding as people age (PET)

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Common cause/factor hypothesis (role as a mediator)

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All the deficits we see in aging are due to a common factor, all are potential explanations that contribute to memory changes

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Speed of Processing hypothesis

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Mechanisms that may influence cognition: limited time and simultaneity.
Salthouse reported evidence that the relation between age and decision accuracy was 0 (non existent) when speed of processing was added to the model
ROLE: mediator because it fully explains the role of accuracy and age, aka high for some people and low for others

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Limited time mechanism

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Cognitive operations are executed too slowly for time window, additional time taken for early operations restrict time abatable for later operations.
Complexity effect: greater age differences for more complex tasks…bc they are slower they may not have time to reach the later processes and not be able to finish other task

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Simultaneity mechanism

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Slow processing makes it so operations are not occurring at the same time, output of one operation is no longer available by the time the next operation is completed.
If you are taking a long time with one process, by the time you move on to the next your working memory cannot remember the later

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White matter in speed of processing

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Myelin sheath speeds neural transmission and deterioration may lead to slowing.
myelin sheath around axons which allow productive movement and aging deteriorates it and therefore slower

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MVPA (Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis)

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Look at pattern of activation within a reason and ask how does that pattern distinguish between groups of OAs/YAs

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Item-Level Representational Stability

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Ask are all of the objects more similar to some another for both groups then compare the groups

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Functions of Inhibition

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Controlling access to attention’s focus
Deleting irrelevant info from attention and working memory
Suppressing or restraining strong but inappropriate responses

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