PSYC 3495 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, Attentional Control, Implicit Memory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3495
• Professor: Gary Turner

Document Summary

-> age-related differences only when tasks are complex or strictly timed (surgeon, air traffic control) -> age-related differences when demands of the tasks exceed older adults" attentional resources/capacity. -> age-related differences when the situation makes it difficult to ignore distracting stimuli. - aging = poor discrimination / localization of peripheral visual information in noisy / cluttered visual environments. -> identify vehicle in central fixation (processing speed) -> identify vehicle in central fixation and periphery (divided attention) -> discrimination task at fixation with distractors in periphery (selective attention) -> having to move your attention to observe a different cue. How quickly your attention moves from one cue to another. Pay attention to whats relevant, ignore whats irrelevant. Dementias: loss of cognitive function and higher order (cognitive domain, not always executive but could be memory) Dementia is the broader category of a brain disease when compared to alzheimer"s. Prof likes to test what he talks about.