| Presentation | 2012-05-22 The differential aging effects in the Franker and Simon tasks : A NIRS study Nobuyuki KAWAI, Namiko KUBO-KAWAI, Kenta KUBO, Tae TERAZAWA, Nobuo MASATAKA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Studies on cognitive aging have demonstrated that aging is accompanied by a decreased ability to inhibit irrelevant information. The elderly, however, don't always show deficit in an inhibition task. Previous studies suggest that the elderly compensate their decreased inhibitory ability by an exaggerated activation in prefrontal brain area, which is responsible for inhibition. We compared the younger adults and the elderly in the Franker and Simon tasks by recording brain activity with a near-infra red spectoroscotopy (NIRS). The elderly showed greater Simon effect, although the Franker effect was equivalent to the young. However, greater brain activities were observed in the elderly in the Franker task. The NIRS scores show that brain activity in right dorsolateral area was greater in incongruent condition than in congruent condition in the Simon task, suggesting that this area was responsible for response inhibition, while there was no group difference in this activity. |
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| Keyword(in English) | aging / inhibition / Simon effect / Franker task / NIRS |
| Paper # | HCS2012-19,HIP2012-19 |
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| Conference Date | 2012/5/15(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | The differential aging effects in the Franker and Simon tasks : A NIRS study |
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| Keyword(1) | aging |
| Keyword(2) | inhibition |
| Keyword(3) | Simon effect |
| Keyword(4) | Franker task |
| Keyword(5) | NIRS |
| 1st Author's Name | Nobuyuki KAWAI |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Namiko KUBO-KAWAI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Psychology, Aichi-Shukutoku University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Kenta KUBO |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Japan Science and Technology Agency(UST-ERATO) |
| 4th Author's Name | Tae TERAZAWA |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University |
| 5th Author's Name | Nobuo MASATAKA |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Kyoto University Primate Research Institute |
| Date | 2012-05-22 |
| Paper # | HCS2012-19,HIP2012-19 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.112 |
| Number (no) | 45 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 5 |
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