Background Auditory training involves active listening to auditory stimuli and aims to
improve performance in auditory tasks. As such, auditory training is a potential intervention …

We present a comprehensive review of studies assessing inhibitory functioning in
Alzheimer's disease. The objectives of this review are:(i) to establish whether Alzheimer's …

Many but not all cognitive abilities decline during ageing. Some even improve due to lifelong
experience. The critical capacities of attention and executive functions have been widely …

Aging has been assumed to go along with deficient inhibitory processes in cognitive
performance. According to this inhibition deficit hypothesis, older adults are less able to …

Higher order speeded cognitive abilities depend on efficient coordination of activity across
the brain, rendering them vulnerable to age reductions in structural and functional brain …

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number
of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues have been generated in the past …

This study examined the development of executive function (EF) in a typically developing
sample from middle childhood to adolescence using a range of tasks varying in affective …

The Stroop Color-Word Test was administered to 1,856 cognitively screened, healthy
Dutchspeaking participants aged 24 to 81 years. The effects of age, gender, and education …

The aims of this study were to investigate whether the executive functions, inhibition, shifting,
and updating, are distinguishable as latent variables (common factors) in children aged 9 to …

Current neuropsychological models propose that some age-related cognitive changes are
due to frontal-lobe deterioration. However, these models have not considered the possible …