Inhibitory motor control in old age: evidence for de-automatization?

To examine age-related effects on high-level consciously-controlled and low-level automatically-controlled inhibitory processes, the Simon task was combined with the masked prime task in a hybrid procedure. Young and older adults responded to the identity of targets (left/right key-press to left-/ri...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth Ann Maylor, Kulbir Singh Birak, Friederike eSchlaghecken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00132/full