Probing the relationship between late endogenous ERP components with fluid intelligence in healthy older adults

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2020-07-07

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Springer Nature
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The world population is rapidly aging, bringing together the necessity to better understand the advancing age. This characterization may be used to aid early diagnosis and to guide individually-tailored interventions. While some event-related potential (ERP) components, such as the P300 and late positive complex (LPC), have been associated with fluid intelligence (Gf) in young population; little is known whether these associations hold for older people. Therefore, the main goal of this study was to assess whether these ERP components are associated with Gf in the elderly. Fifty-seven older adults performed a continuous performance task (CPT) and a visual oddball paradigm while EEG was recorded. Participants were divided into two groups, according to their performance in the Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices test: high-performance (HP) and low-performance (LP). Results showed that the HP group, compared to the LP group, had higher LPC amplitudes in the CPT and shorter P300 latencies in the oddball task, highlighting the role of ERP components as a potential electrophysiological proxy of Gf abilities in the elderly.

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Neuroscience, Physiology, Psychology

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Teixeira-Santos, A. C., Pinal, D., Pereira, D. R., Leite, J., Carvalho, S., & Sampaio, A. (2020). Probing the relationship between late endogenous ERP components with fluid intelligence in healthy older adults. Scientific Reports, 10(Article ID 11167), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67924-4. Repositório Institucional UPT. http://hdl.handle.net/11328/3248

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