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Christina Wasylyshyn1, Paul Verhaeghen, Martin J Sliwinski.
Abstract
A meta-analysis of 26 published articles (with 36 independent participant groups) was conducted to analyze the relationship between task-switching effects and aging. Latency served as the dependent measure. Multilevel modeling was used to test for additive and multiplicative complexity effects in local and global switch costs. Global task switching was found to add 1 or more stages to processing and resulted in a marked age deficit. Local task-switching costs, on the other hand, showed a multiplicative complexity effect but no specific attention-related age deficits. Cueing or switch predictability did not affect age differences. (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21261411 PMCID: PMC4374429 DOI: 10.1037/a0020912
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychol Aging ISSN: 0882-7974