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- Title
Electrophysiological Correlates of Subitizing in Healthy Aging.
- Authors
Pagano, Silvia; Fait, Elisa; Monti, Alessia; Brignani, Debora; Mazza, Veronica
- Abstract
To understand the nature of age-related changes in enumeration abilities we measured two ERP responses -N2pc and CDA, associated respectively to attentive individuation and VWM- and posterior alpha band (8-15 Hz) event-related desynchronization (ERD), traditionally linked to enhanced target processing. Two groups of old and young participants enumerated a variable number (1-6) of targets presented among distractors. Older participants were less accurate in enumerating targets. ERP results in old participants showed a suppression of N2pc amplitudes for all numerosities, and a decrease in CDA only for the largest set (4-6 targets). In contrast with the pattern for young adults, time/frequency results on older adults revealed neither a modulation of alpha oscillations as a function of target numerosity, nor an effect of ERD lateralization. These patterns indicate that both attention and working memory contribute to the age-related decline in enumeration, and point to an overall decrease in the activity of the visual areas responsible for the processing of the hemifield where the relevant objects are presented.
- Subjects
PHYSIOLOGICAL aspects of aging; EVOKED potentials (Electrophysiology); CEREBRAL dominance; INDIVIDUATION (Psychology); SHORT-term memory; CRITICAL discourse analysis
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2015, Vol 10, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0131063