Practice makes imperfect : stronger implicit interference with practice in individuals at high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease

Early screening to determine patient risk of developing Alzheimer's will allow better interventions and planning but necessitates accessible methods such as behavioral biomarkers. Previously, we showed that cognitively healthy older individuals whose cerebrospinal fluid amyloid / tau ratio indicates high risk of cognitive decline experienced implicit interference during a high-effort task, signaling early changes in attention. To further investigate attention's effect on implicit interference, we analyzed two experiments completed sequentially by the same high- and low-risk individuals. We hypothesized that if attention modulates interference, practice would affect the influence of implicit distractors. Indeed, while both groups experienced a strong practice effect, the association between practice and interference effects diverged between groups: stronger practice effects correlated with more implicit interference in high-risk participants, but less interference in low-risk individuals. Furthermore, low-risk individuals showed a positive correlation between implicit interference and EEG low-range alpha event-related desynchronization when switching from high- to low-load tasks. These results demonstrate how attention impacts implicit interference and highlight early differences in cognition between high- and low-risk individuals.

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UpdateIn: Geroscience. 2023 Oct 10;:. - PMID 37817004

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E-Artikel

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

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bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology - (2023) vom: 17. Mai

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Englisch

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Hung, Shao-Min [VerfasserIn]
Adams, Sara W [VerfasserIn]
Molloy, Cathleen [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Daw-An [VerfasserIn]
Shimojo, Shinsuke [VerfasserIn]
Arakaki, Xianghong [VerfasserIn]

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Aging
Implicit processing
Practice
Pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease
Preprint

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Date Revised 30.01.2024

published: Electronic

UpdateIn: Geroscience. 2023 Oct 10;:. - PMID 37817004

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1101/2023.05.16.541059

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NLM357947266