Stimulus-response translation in manual and vocal modality: Is age-related slowing influenced by changes in working memory functioning?
(2004) European Journal of Cognitive Psychology — Vol. 16, n° 4, p. 597-624 (2004)
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Feyereisen, Pierre 
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- In some conditions, age-related slowing rates are higher for manual than for vocal responses. The interaction between age and response modality was examined in four experiments in which the performance of younger ( M = 22.6 years) and older ( M = 70.8 years) adults was compared under various stimulus-response mapping rules. The interaction effect was not observed in a simple localisation task on which the manual modality had an advantage in both age groups (Experiment 1). When congruence between stimulus and response was reduced (Experiment 2), manual responses were disproportionately slowed in older participants. In conceptual and size comparison tasks (Experiment 3), the age-by-modality effect was not influenced by working memory load during the interval between the first and the second stimulus presentation. In an identification task, age-related slowing effects were less when responses were spoken names than when nonwords were used as labels (Experiment 4). These results indicate that older participants experience a specific difficulty in activating arbitrary S-R mapping rules during executive control.
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Doose, G., & Feyereisen, P. (2004). Stimulus-response translation in manual and vocal modality: Is age-related slowing influenced by changes in working memory functioning? European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 16(4), 597-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440340000394 (Original work published 2004)