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The effects of age bias on neural correlates of successful and unsuccessful response inhibition in younger and older adults.

Hanley, C. J, Burns, N., Thomas, H. R., Marstaller, L. and Burianová, H., 2023. The effects of age bias on neural correlates of successful and unsuccessful response inhibition in younger and older adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 131, 1-10.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2023.07.004

Abstract

Facilitating communication between generations has become increasingly important. However, individuals often demonstrate a preference for their own age group, which can impact social interactions, and such bias in young adults even extends to inhibitory control. To assess whether older adults also experience this phenomenon, a group of younger and older adults completed a Go/NoGo task incorporating young and old faces, while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging. Within the networks subserving successful and unsuccessful response inhibition, patterns of activity demonstrated distinct neural age bias effects in each age group. During successful inhibition, the older adult group demonstrated significantly increased activity to other-age faces, whereas unsuccessful inhibition in the younger group produced significantly enhanced activity to other-age faces. Consequently, the findings of the study confirm that neural responses to successful and unsuccessful inhibition can be contingent on the stimulus-specific attribute of age in both younger and older adults. These findings have important implications in regard to minimizing the emergence of negative consequences, such as ageism, as a result of related implicit biases.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:0197-4580
Uncontrolled Keywords:Age bias; Aging; FMRI; Go/NoGo; Response inhibition; Social cognition
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:38890
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:15 Aug 2023 07:52
Last Modified:31 May 2024 07:13

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