Journal article
Age, Executive Functions, and Visuospatial Functioning in Healthy Older Adults
Neuropsychology, v 8(1), pp 38-43
01 Jan 1994
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Abstract
Visuospatial test performance declines with age, whereas verbal test performance remains fairly constant. This pattern has been attributed to an age-related decline in either right-hemisphere functioning or executive functions (EF), which may be associated with prefrontal cortical decline. We administered timed and untimed EF tests and Visuospatial tests requiring substantial integrative skill (I-VS) or little or no integrative skill (non-I-VS) to young-old (74 and younger) and old-old (75 and older) healthy volunteers. Groups differed on I-VS tests and on many EF tests but not on non-I-VS tests. I-VS tests correlated highly with tests of executive functions, but non-I-VS tests did not. These results are interpreted as supporting the proposal that an age-related decline in EF underlies the decline in Visuospatial test performance observed with advancing age. Other issues regarding the relationship between age and EF are discussed.
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- Title
- Age, Executive Functions, and Visuospatial Functioning in Healthy Older Adults
- Creators
- David J. Libon - Crozer-Keystone Health SystemGuila Glosser - Grad Hosp, Dept Neurol, Philadelphia, PA USABarbara L. Malamut - Philadelphia Geriatr Ctr, Dept Clin Psychol, Philadelphia, PA USAEdith Kaplan - Boston UniversityElkhonon Goldberg - College Station Medical CenterRodney Swenson - Merit Care Neurosci Ctr, Fargo, ND USALaura Prouty Sands - College Station Medical Center
- Publication Details
- Neuropsychology, v 8(1), pp 38-43
- Publisher
- Amer Psychological Assoc
- Number of pages
- 6
- Grant note
- AG003934-05 / National Institute on Aging; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000217181700005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0001833497
- Other Identifier
- 991021901314304721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Neurosciences
- Psychology
- Psychology, Clinical