Age differences in brain activity during perceptual versus reflective attention

• DOI: 10.1097/wnr.0b013e32833730d6
• Publication Date: 2010-02-09T06:53:14Z
• Authors: Karen J. Mitchell; Matthew R. Johnson; Julie A. Higgins; Marcia K. Johnson
• Keywords: Cued speech

This functional magnetic resonance imaging study presented participants with a face and scene simultaneously on each trial, assessed the impact of perceptual versus reflective selective attention activity in parahippocampal place area. Young older adults showed equivalent activation area when cued to attend stimuli were perceptually present refresh (briefly think about) after no longer present. The groups also deactivation However, less than young face, providing evidence for greater age-related disruption attention.