Hsieh Shulan, Lin Yu-Chi
Cognitive Electrophysiology Laboratory: Control, Aging, Sleep, & Emotion (CASE), Department of Psychology, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; Institute of Allied Health Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
Cognitive Electrophysiology Laboratory: Control, Aging, Sleep, & Emotion (CASE), Department of Psychology, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2017 Feb;173:122-131. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.12.011. Epub 2017 Jan 5.
This study consisted of two primary aims: (1) to determine if different age groups exhibited different strategies (based on their behavioral reaction time [RT] patterns) while performing a stop-signal task and (2) whether there were age-related differences in reactive and/or proactive control processes. Twenty-four younger adults (20-30years) and 24 older adults (61-76years) participated in this study. Participants performed a stop-signal task, which included a choice RT block, global stop-signal block, and stimulus-selective stop-signal block. Participants' strategies were classified using the Bayes factor to support or reject the null hypotheses at the individual level based on paired comparisons among the mean no-signal, signal-respond, and ignore RTs. We found that older adults used a similar pattern of strategies as younger adults in performing a stimulus-selective stop-signal task; most of them utilized either the Stop then Discriminate strategy or Discriminate then Stop strategy with dependency between go and stop processing. In addition, while older adults exhibited an impaired reactive control deficiency reflected on their increased stop-signal RTs in the stimulus-selective stop-signal task, they did not show an impaired proactive control process because their go trials' RT differences between the choice RT and stop-signal blocks did not differ significantly from those of young adults.
(1)确定不同年龄组在执行停止信号任务时是否表现出不同的策略(基于其行为反应时间[RT]模式);(2)反应性和/或主动性控制过程中是否存在与年龄相关的差异。24名年轻成年人(20 - 30岁)和24名年长成年人(61 - 76岁)参与了本研究。参与者执行一项停止信号任务,该任务包括一个选择反应时块、全局停止信号块和刺激选择性停止信号块。根据平均无信号、信号反应和忽略反应时之间的配对比较,使用贝叶斯因子在个体水平上支持或拒绝零假设,对参与者的策略进行分类。我们发现,年长成年人在执行刺激选择性停止信号任务时使用的策略模式与年轻成年人相似;他们中的大多数人采用了“先停止再辨别”策略或“先辨别再停止”策略,且执行和停止过程之间存在依赖性。此外,虽然年长成年人在刺激选择性停止信号任务中表现出反应性控制缺陷,表现为停止信号反应时增加,但他们并未表现出主动性控制过程受损,因为他们在选择反应时块和停止信号块之间的执行试验反应时差异与年轻成年人相比无显著差异。