Llanos-Becerra, Graciela Dávila-Godínez, Eduardo Torres-Carrillo, Norma Rosas-Carrasco, Oscar Sandoval-Pinto, Elena Beltrán-Ramírez, Raúl Torres-Carrillo, Nora Magdalena
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Experimental aging research
The purpose of this study was to assess the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels and depressive symptoms in Mexican older adults 70 years and older. A total of 326 adults aged 70 or older from Coyoacán Cohort Study were included in this study. The depressive symptoms were assessing by Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depre...
Higgins, Julie A Milberg, William McGlinchey, Regina
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Experimental aging research
Are semantic impairments in Alzheimer's disease (AD) partially due to deficits in spatial attention? In a target detection task, both older adults (OAs) and AD individuals were facilitated by valid spatial cues, but only OAs were impaired by invalid cues compared to neutral. In a reading task, spatial cues validly or invalidly cued the location of ...
Murphy, Dillon H Castel, Alan D
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Experimental aging research
We examined the effects of interference on value-based memory in younger and older adults by presenting participants with lists of words paired with point values counting toward their score if recalled. In Experiment 1, we created a situation where there was a buildup of interference such that participants could recall words from any studied list t...
Bassis, Daniella Rybko, Judit Maor, Rotem
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Experimental aging research
Despite the availability of improvisational theater training in different settings, studies that assess its effectiveness as a means for enhancing cognitive training for older adults are scarce. This study examines the influence of short theater improvisation exercises on the cognitive flexibility of cognitively-healthy older adults, and their infl...
Şimşek, Şule Oymak Soysal, Ayşe Nur Kaş Özdemir, Atiye
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Experimental aging research
This study aimed to determine the relation between pain, pain belief, and coping strategies and the interaction effect of pain belief and coping stretegies on pain intensity in older adults living in Denizli. 601 older adults (68.32 ± 8.28 years) with good cognitive function participated in current study. Pain intensity, pain beliefs and coping str...
Huang, Tingting Rothermund, Klaus
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Experimental aging research
In a series of three studies (N = 187), we investigated the correlation between implicit and explicit age stereotypes, both of which were assessed in a context-dependent way. To assess implicit age stereotypes, we presented combinations of age category and specific context information as primes in a lexical decision task (LDT) with age stereotypic ...
Rodríguez-Mora, Álvaro Mateo Guirola, Tania Mestre, José M
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Experimental aging research
Carers of Alzheimer's suffer from caregiver overload, anxiety and depression. Changes in caregiving brought about by pandemic restrictions (COVID-19) may play a role. The aim was to explore the caregiver profile and assess the influence of the pandemic on informal and formal caregivers in a Spanish sample. Sixty caregivers participated. An ad hoc q...
Derks-Dijkman, Marije W Schaefer, Rebecca S Stegeman, Maartje L van Tilborg, Ilse D A Kessels, Roy P C
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Experimental aging research
To overcome memory decrements in healthy aging, compensation strategies and mnemonics have been found to be promising. The effects of musical mnemonics in aging have been scarcely studied. The present study examined the effects of musical presentation of digits (pitch sequences, rhythms, and their combinations) on working memory performance in youn...
Merck, Catherine Noël, Audrey Jamet, Eric Robert, Maxime Salmon, Anne Belliard, Serge Kalénine, Solène
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Experimental aging research
This study aimed to assess the effect of normal aging on the processing of taxonomic and thematic semantic relations. We used the Visual-World-Paradigm coupled with eye-movement recording. We compared performance of healthy younger and older adults on a word-to-picture matching task in which participants had to identify each target among semantical...
Abbas, Rami L Saab, Ibtissam M Al-Sharif, Hassan K Naja, Nabil El-Khatib, Ayman
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Experimental aging research
Falls secondary to balance disturbances have been considered as a burden on health systems in people with dementia aged above 65. Exercise has been increasingly recommended to address such problem and the main challenges being the commitment and supervision of training. The study's aim was to investigate the effect of adding motorized cycle ergomet...
