Does within-person variability predict errors in healthy adults aged 18–90?

Haynes, Becky I.; Bauermeister, Sarah; Bunce, David

doi:10.1080/17470218.2016.1204328

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“…Attentional fluctuation may also impact on prospective memory through failure of executive processes (e.g., monitoring) leading to a failure to detect a target. The present results converge with our recent finding that IIV was associated with visual search errors, and particularly errors of omission, a result that strengthened with older age (Haynes, Bauermeister, & Bunce, 2016). These results both suggest that older adults who are more variable are more likely to fail to detect a target, whether this is a prospective memory cue or a visual search target.…”

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Intraindividual reaction time variability predicts prospective memory failures in older adults

Haynes

Kliegel

Zimprich

et al. 2016

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

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Article:Haynes, BI orcid.org/0000-0003-0054-6591, Kliegel, M, Zimprich, D et al. (1 more author) (2018) Intraindividual reaction time variability predicts prospective memory failures in older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 25 (1 ReuseUnless indicated otherwise, fulltext items are protected by copyright with all rights reserved. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows the making of a single copy solely for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study within the limits of fair dealing. The publisher or other rights-holder may allow further reproduction and re-use of this version -refer to the White Rose Research Online record for this item. Where records identify the publisher as the copyright holder, users can verify any specific terms of use on the publisher's website. TakedownIf you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. Running head -IIV PREDICTS PROSPECTIVE MEMORY FAILURES AcknowledgementsThe research received financial support from the Swiss National Science Foundation. We are grateful to Melanie Zeintl for comments on a previous version of this manuscript. IIV PREDICTS PROSPECTIVE MEMORY FAILURES 2 AbstractThis study investigated the relationship between intraindividual variability (IIV) in reaction time and prospective memory errors in older adults using data from the Zurich Longitudinal

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Intraindividual reaction time variability predicts prospective memory failures in older adults

Haynes

Kliegel

Zimprich

et al. 2016

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

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“…Attention wanders on and off a given task, fluctuating even in the absence of salient external distractors (Esterman, Noonan, Rosenberg, & Degutis, 2013). Previous work with adults has demonstrated that greater fluctuations in attention predicted impairments in task performance (Bellgrove, Hester, & Garavan, 2004; Haynes, Bauermeister, & Bunce, 2016; Unsworth & McMillan, 2014). Importantly, individuals who were more susceptible to attentional fluctuations showed poorer performance not only during the task in which fluctuations were measured, but also in other fundamental cognitive functions including working memory, prospective memory, and fluid intelligence (Ihle, Ghisletta, & Kliegel, 2016; Kane et al, 2016; Larson & Saccuzzo, 1989; Unsworth, 2015).…”

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“…As such, it is considered an index of executive attention abilities (Kane et al, 2016). Research with adults has demonstrated that greater response time variability predicts poorer cognitive performance in nonclinical populations (Haynes et al, 2016; Larson & Saccuzzo, 1989; Unsworth, 2015), and is a common characteristic across various adult clinical populations (Duchek et al, 2009; Kaiser et al, 2008). Such findings highlight the utility of using response time variability as an index of attentional fluctuations in typical and atypical populations alike.…”

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Attentional fluctuations in preschoolers: Direct and indirect relations with task accuracy, academic readiness, and school performance

Isbell

Calkins

Swingler

et al. 2018

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Attentional control fluctuates in the presence of internal and external distractors, wandering on and off a given task. The current study investigated individual differences in attentional fluctuations in 250 preschoolers. Attentional fluctuations were assessed via intra-individual variability in response time in a Go/No-Go task. Greater fluctuations in attentional control were linked to lower task accuracy. In addition, greater attentional fluctuations predicted lower performance in a task of cognitive flexibility, the Dimensional Change Card Sort task. Attentional fluctuations were also associated with laboratory measures of academic readiness in preschool, as assessed by the Applied Problems and Letter-Word Identification subscales of the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement, which in turn predicted teacher reports of academic performance in first grade. Attentional fluctuations also had indirect associations with emergent math skills in preschool, via cognitive flexibility, as well as indirect associations with first-grade teacher reports of academic performance, via the relations between cognitive flexibility and emergent math skills in preschool. These results suggest that consistency is an important aspect of attentional control during early childhood.

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“…However, one aspect of cognitive control that, to our knowledge, has not been studied in this population is attentional fluctuations. Variability in response time on any task is presumed to represent attentional fluctuations, which have been shown to be an important cognitive trait that is predictive of cognitive performance in adults more generally [12,24,25]. This aspect of cognition has also been investigated in clinical populations (e.g., ADHD, dementia) who show heightened attentional fluctuations [26,27].…”

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Attentional Fluctuations, Cognitive Flexibility, and Bilingualism in Kindergarteners

Haft

Kepinska

Caballero

et al. 2019

Behavioral Sciences

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The idea of a bilingual advantage in aspects of cognitive control—including cognitive flexibility, inhibition, working memory, and attention—is disputed. Using a sample of kindergarten children, the present study investigated associations between bilingualism and cognitive flexibility—a relationship that has shown mixed findings in prior literature. We also extend prior work by exploring relationships between bilingualism and attentional fluctuations, which represent consistency in attentional control and contribute to cognitive performance. To our knowledge, no previous study has explored this association. Theoretically, attentional fluctuations might mediate or moderate the relationship between bilingualism and cognitive flexibility. However, given evidence of null findings from extant literature when confounding variables are adequately controlled and tasks are standardized, we did not expect to find a bilingual advantage in either cognitive flexibility or attentional fluctuations. Our results supported this hypothesis when considering bilingualism both continuously and categorically. The importance of expanding upon mechanistic accounts connecting bilingualism to cognitive improvements is discussed.

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Does within-person variability predict errors in healthy adults aged 18–90?

Abstract: Article:Haynes, BI orcid.org/0000-0003-0054-6591, Bauermeister, S and Bunce, D orcid.org/0000-0003-3265-2700 (2017) Does within-person variability predict errors in healthy adults aged 18-90? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70 (8). pp.

Cited by 12 publications

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Intraindividual reaction time variability predicts prospective memory failures in older adults

Intraindividual reaction time variability predicts prospective memory failures in older adults

Attentional fluctuations in preschoolers: Direct and indirect relations with task accuracy, academic readiness, and school performance

Attentional Fluctuations, Cognitive Flexibility, and Bilingualism in Kindergarteners

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