@article{ref1,
title="Information processing becomes slower and predominantly serial in aging: characterization of response-related brain potentials in an auditory-visual distraction-attention task",
journal="Biological psychology",
year="2015",
author="Cid-Fernández, Susana and Lindín, Mónica and Díaz, Fernando",
volume="113",
number="",
pages="12-23",
abstract="The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of aging and attentional capture provoked by novel auditory stimuli on behavior (reaction time [RT], hits) and on response-related brain potentials (preRFP, CRN, postRFP, parietalRP) to target visual stimuli. Twenty-two young, 27 middle-aged, and 24 old adults performed an auditory-visual distraction-attention task. The RTs and latencies of preRFP, postRFP and parietalRT were longer in old and middle-aged than in young participants, reflecting the well-established age-related slowing of processing and performance. The inter-peak latencies (P3b-preRFP, preRFP-parietalRP, parietalRP-postRFP) were also longer in old and middle-aged than in young participants, further indicating an age-related tendency to increased predominance of serial (rather than parallel) processing of information, and that preRFP, CRN, postRFP, and parietalRP represent different cognitive processes from those indexed by the stimulus-related P3b. Finally, a distraction effect in performance (all three groups) and in postRFP latency (only middle-aged group) was also observed.   Keywords: Driver distraction;<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0301-0511",
doi="10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.11.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.11.002"
}