title: Feature integration across the lifespan: stickier stimulus-response bindings in children and older adults.
abstract: Humans integrate the features of perceived events and of action plans into episodic event files. Here we investigated whether children (9-10 years), younger adults (20-31 years), and older adults (64-76 years) differ in the flexibility of managing (updating) event files. Relative to young adults, performance in children and older adults was more hampered by partial mismatches between present and previous stimulus-response relations, suggesting less efficient updating of episodic stimulus-response representations in childhood and old age. Results are discussed in relation to changes in cortical neurochemistry during maturation and senescence.
authors: Leiden Institute for Psychological Research and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Netherlands.
authors: Bernhard
authors: B
authors: Hommel
authors: Jutta
authors: J
authors: Kray
authors: Ulman
authors: U
authors: Lindenberger