The effects of pre-cue alpha and cueing strategy on age-related deficits in post-cue alpha activity and target processing during visual spatial attention.
Cereb Cortex
; 33(22): 11112-11125, 2023 11 04.
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ABSTRACT
Electroencephalography alpha-band (8-13 Hz) activity during visual spatial attention declines in normal aging. We recently reported the impacts of pre-cue baseline alpha and cueing strategy on post-cue anticipatory alpha activity and target processing in visual spatial attention (Wang et al., Cerebral Cortex, 2023). However, whether these factors affected aging effects remains unaddressed. We investigated this issue in two independent experiments (n = 114) with different cueing strategies (instructional vs. probabilistic). When median-splitting young adults (YA) by their pre-cue alpha power, we found that older adults exhibited similar pre-cue and post-cue alpha activity as YA with lower pre-cue alpha, and only YA with higher pre-cue alpha showed significant post-cue alpha activity, suggesting that diminished anticipatory alpha activity was not specific to aging but likely due to a general decrease with baseline alpha. Moreover, we found that the aging effects on cue-related event-related potentials were dependent on cueing strategy but were relatively independent of pre-cue alpha. However, age-related deficits in target-related N1 attentional modulation might depend on both pre-cue alpha and cueing strategy. By considering the impacts of pre-cue alpha and cueing strategy, our findings offer new insights into age-related deficits in anticipatory alpha activity and target processing during visual spatial attention.
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China