Does white matter matter? Spatio-temporal dynamics of task switching in aging

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1380-1395

  Gratton, Gabriele ^a   Wee, Emily ^a   Rykhlevskaia, Elena I ^a   Leaver, Echo E ^a   Fabiani, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650093083     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21093     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. Agran, J., Low, K. A., Ryklevskaia, E. I., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (submitted). When the rules keep changing: The timing of activation of task-general and task-specific brain regions involved in preparation.
2. Aron, A. R., Monsell, S., Sahakian, B. J., & Robbins, T. W. (2004). A componential analysis of task-switching deficits associated with lesions of left and right frontal cortex. Brain, 127, 1561-1573.
3. Ashburner, J., & Friston, K. J. (2000). Voxel-based morphometry: The methods. Neuroimage, 11, 805-821.
4. Ashburner, J., & Friston, K. J. (2001). Why voxel-based morphometry should be used. Neuroimage, 14, 1454-1462.
5. Beck, A. T., Steer, R. A., & Brown, G. K. (1996). Manual for the Beck depression inventory (2nd ed.). San Antonio, TX: The Psychological Corporation.
6. Braver, T., Reynolds, J., & Donaldson, D. (2003). Neural mechanisms of transient and sustained cognitive control during task switching. Neuron, 39, 713-726.
7. Bunge, S. A., & Wallis, J. D. (Eds.) (2008). Perspectives on rule-guided behavior. New York: Oxford University Press.
8. Cabeza, R. (2002). Hemispheric asymmetry reduction in older adults: The HAROLD model. Psychology and Aging, 17, 85-100.
9. Cabeza, R., Anderson, N. D., Locantore, J. K., & McIntosh, A. R. (2002). Aging gracefully: Compensatory brain activity in high-performing older adults. Neuroimage, 17, 1394-1402.
10. Colcombe, S. J., Kramer, A. F., Erickson, K. I., & Scalf, P. (2005). The implications of cortical recruitment and brain morphology for individual differences in cognitive performance in aging humans. Psychology and Aging, 20, 363-375.
11. Crone, E. A., Wendelen, C., Donohue, S. E., & Bunge, S. A. (2006). Neural evidence for dissociable components of task-switching. Cerebral Cortex, 16, 475-486.
12. Daselaar, S., & Cabeza, R. (2005). Age-related changes in hemispheric organization. In R. Cabeza, L. Nyberg, & D. Park (Eds.), Cognitive neuroscience of aging: Linking cognitive and cerebral aging (pp. 325-353). New York: Oxford University Press.
13. Davatzikos, C., & Resnick, S. M. (2002). Degenerative age changes in white matter connectivity visualized in vivo using magnetic resonance imaging. Cerebral Cortex, 12, 767-771.
14. DeSoto, M. C., Fabiani, M., Geary, D. C., & Gratton, G. (2001). When in doubt, do it both ways: Brain evidence of the simultaneous activation of conflicting responses in a spatial Stroop task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 523-536.
15. DiGirolamo, G. J., Kramer, A. F., Barad, V., Cepeda, N. J., Weissman, D. H., Milham, M. P., et al. (2001). General and task-specific frontal lobe recruitment in older adults during executive processes: A fMRI investigation of task-switching. NeuroReport, 12, 2065-2071.
16. Dove, A., Pollmann, S., Schubert, T., Wiggins, C. J., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2000). Prefrontal cortex activation in task switching: An event-related fMRI Study. Cognitive Brain Research, 9, 103-109.
17. Fabiani, M., & Friedman, D. (1995). Changes in brain activity patterns in aging: The novelty oddball. Psychophysiology, 32, 579-594.
18. Gazzaley, A., Rissman, J., Cooney, J., Rutman, A., Seibert, T., Clapp, W., et al. (2007). Functional interactions between prefrontal and visual association cortex contribute to top-down modulation of visual processing. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 125-135.
19. Gilbert, S. J., & Shallice, T. (2002). Task switching: A PDP model. Cognitive Psychology, 44, 297-337.
20. Gordon, B., Rykhlevskaia, E., Brumback, C. R., Lee, Y., Elavsky, S., Konopack, J. F., et al. (2008). Anatomical correlates of aging, cardiopulmonary fitness level, and education. Psychophysiology, 45, 825-838.
21. Grady, C. L., McIntosh, A. R., Horwitz, B., & Rapoport, S. I. (2000). Age-related changes in the neural correlates of degreaded and nondegraded face processing. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 217, 165-186.
22. Gratton, G., Brumback, C. R., Gordon, B. A., Pearson, M. A., Low, K. A., & Fabiani, M. (2006). Effects of measurement method, wavelength, and source-detector distance on the fast optical signal. Neuroimage, 32, 1576-1590.
23. Gratton, G., & Corballis, P. M. (1995). Removing the heart from the brain: Compensation for the pulse artifact in the photon migration signal. Psychophysiology, 32, 292-299.
24. Gratton, G., Corballis, P. M., Cho, E., Fabiani, M., & Hood, D. (1995). Shades of gray matter: Noninvasive optical images of human brain responses during visual stimulation. Psychophysiology, 32, 505-509.
25. Gratton, G., & Fabiani, M. (2001). Shedding light on brain function: The event-related optical signal. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 357-363.
26. Gratton, G., & Fabiani, M. (2007). Optical imaging. In R. Parasuraman & M. Rizzo (Eds.), Neuroergonomics: The brain at work (pp. 65-81). Cambridge: Oxford University Press.
27. Gratton, G., Low, K. A., & Fabiani, M. (2008). Time course of executive processes: Data from the eventrelated optical signal (EROS). In S. A. Bunge & J. D. Wallis (Eds.), Perspectives on rule-guided behavior (pp. 197-223). New York: Oxford University Press.
28. Gray, C. F., Chabris, J. R., & Braver, T. (2003). Neural mechanisms of general f luid intelligence. Nature Neuroscience, 6, 316-322.
29. Gunning-Dixon, F. M., & Raz, N. (2003). Neuroanatomical correlates of selected executive function in middle-aged and older adults: A prospective MRI study. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1929-1941.
30. Hasher, L., Lustig, C., & Zacks, R. (2008). Inhibitory mechanisms and the control of attention. In A. Conway, C. Jarrold, M. Kane, A. Miyake, & J. Towse (Eds.), Variation in working memory (pp. 227-249). New York: Oxford University Press.
31. Head, D., Buckner, R. L., Shimony, J. S., Williams, L. E., Akbudak, E., Conturo, T. E., et al. (2004). Differential vulnerability of anterior white matter in nondemented aging with minimal acceleration in dementia of the Alzheimer type: Evidence from diffusion tensor imaging. Cerebral Cortex, 14, 410-423.
32. Kelley, W. M., Miezin, F. M., McDermott, K. B., Buckner, R. L., Raichle, M. E., Cohen, N. J., et al. (1998). Dorsal frontal cortex and medial temporal lobe for verbal and nonverbal memory encoding. Neuron, 20, 927-936.
33. Kiebel, S. J., Poline, J. B., Friston, K. J., Holmes, A. P., & Worsley, K. J. (1999). Robust smoothness estimation in statistical parametric maps using standardized residuals from the general linear model. Neuroimage, 10, 756-766.
34. Köhler, S., Moscovitch, M., Winocur, G., Houle, S., & McIntosh, A. R. (1998). Networks of domain-specific and general regions involved in episodic memory for spatial location and object identity. Neuropsychologia, 36, 129-142.
35. Kramer, A. F., Fabiani, M., & Colcombe, S. (2006). Contributions of cognitive neuroscience to the understanding of behavior and aging. In J. E. Birren & K. W. Schaie (Eds.), Handbook of the psychology of aging (6th ed., pp. 57-83). New York: Academic Press.
36. Kramer, A. F., Hahn, S., & Gopher, D. (1999). Task coordination and aging: Explorations of executive control processes in the task switching paradigm. Acta Psychologica, 101, 339-378.
37. Kray, J., & Lindenberger, U. (2000). Adult age differences in task switching. Psychology and Aging, 15, 126-147.
38. Le Bihan, D., Mangin, J.-F., Poupon, C., Clark, C. A., Pappata, S., Molko, N., et al. (2001). Diffusion tensor imaging: Concepts and applications. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 13, 534-546.
39. Logan, J. M., Sanders, A. L., Snyder, A. Z., Morris, J. C., & Buckner, R. L. (2002). Under-recruitment and non-selective recruitment: Dissociable neural mechanisms associated with cognitive decline in older adults. Neuron, 33, 827-840.
40. Madden, D. J., Turkington, T. G., Provenzale, J. M., Denny, L. L., Lamgley, L. K., Kawk, T. C., et al. (2002). Aging and attentional guidance during visual search. Psychology and Aging, 17, 24-43.
41. Mayeux, R., Stern, Y., Rosen, J., & Leventhal, J. (1981). Depression, intellectual impairment and Parkinson's disease. Neurology, 31, 645-650.
42. Mayr, U., & Keele, S. W. (2000). Changing internal constraints on action: The role of backward inhibition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 4-26.
43. Mesulam, M. M. (1990). Large-scale neurocognitive networks and distributed processing for attention, language, and memory. Annals of Neurology, 28, 597-613.
44. Meudell, P. R., & Greenhalgh, M. (1987). Age related differences in left and right hand skill and in visuo-spatial performance: Their possible relationships to the hypothesis that the right hemisphere ages more rapidly than the left. Cortex, 23, 431-445.
45. Miller, E. K., & Cohen, J. D. (2001). An integrative theory of prefrontal cortex function. Annual Reviews of Neuroscience, 24, 167-202.
46. Milner, B. (1963). Effects of different brain lesions on card sorting. Archives of Neurology, 9, 100-110.
47. Monsell, S. (2003). Task switching. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 134-140.
48. Nielson, K. A., Langencker, S. A., & Garvan, H. P. (2002). Differences in the functional neuroanatomy of inhibitory control across the adult lifespan. Psychology and Aging, 17, 56-71.
49. O'Sullivan, M., Jones, D. K., Summer, P. E., Morris, R. G., Williams, S. C., & Markus, H. S. (2001). Evidence for cortical "disconnection" as a mechanism of age-related cognitive decline. Neurology, 57, 632-638.
50. Pessoa, L., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2004). Neural correlates of change detection and change blindness in a working memory. Cerebral Cortex, 14, 511-520.
51. Posner, M. I., & Petersen, S. E. (1990). The attention system of the human brain. Annual Reviews of Neuroscience, 13, 25-42.
52. Rajah, M. N., & D'Esposito, M. (2005). Region-specific changes in prefrontal function with age: A review of PET and fMRI studies on working and episodic memory. Brain, 128, 1964-1983.
53. Raz, N. (2000). Aging of the brain and its impact on cognitive performance: Integration of structural and functional findings. In F. I. M. Craik & T. Salthouse (Eds.), The handbook of aging and cognition (pp. 1-90). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
54. Raz, N., Gunning-Dixon, F. M., Head, D., Dupuis, J. H., & Acker, J. D. (1998). Neuroanatomical correlates of cognitive aging: Evidence from structural magnetic resonance imaging. Neuropsychology, 12, 95-114.
55. Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., Jonides, J., Smith, E. E., Hartley, A., Miller, A., Marshuetz, C., et al. (2000). Age differences in the frontal lateralization of verbal and spatial working memory revealed by PET. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 174-187.
56. Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., & Stanczak, L. (2000). Differential effects of aging on the functions of the corpus callosum. Developmental Neuropsychology, 18, 113-137.
57. Rogers, R. D., & Monsell, S. (1995). Costs of a predictable switch between simple cognitive tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 124, 207-231.
58. Rosen, A., Prull, M., O'Hara, R., Race, E., Desmond, J., Glover, G., et al. (2002). Variable effects of aging on frontal lobe contributions to memory. NeuroReport, 13, 2425-2428.
59. Rykhlevskaia, E., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2006). Lagged covariance structure models for studying functional connectivity in the brain. Neuroimage, 30, 1203-1218.
60. Rykhlevskaia, E. I., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2008). Combining structural and functional neuroimaging data for studying brain connectivity: A review. Psychophysiology, 45, 173-187.
61. Salat, D. H., Tuch, D. S., Hevelone, N. D., Fischl, B., Corkin, S., Rosas, H. D., et al. (2005). Age-related changes in prefrontal white matter measured by diffusion tensor imaging. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1064, 37-49.
62. Salthouse, T. A. (1996). The processing-speed theory of adult age differences in cognition. Psychological Review, 103, 403-428.
63. Schneider, D. W., & Logan, G. D. (2007). Defining task-set reconfiguration: The case of reference point switching. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 118-125.
64. Smith, E. E., Jonides, J., & Koeppe, R. A. (1996). Dissociating verbal and spatial working memory using PET. Cerebral Cortex, 6, 11-20.
65. Sohn, M. H., Ursu, S., Anderson, J. R., Stenger, V. A., & Carter, C. S. (2000). Inaugural article: The role of prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex in task switching. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 97, 13448-13453.
66. Sullivan, E. V., & Pfefferbaum, A. (2006). Diffusion tensor imaging and aging. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 30, 749-761.
67. Talairach, J., & Tournoux, P. (1988). Co-planar stereotaxic atlas of the human brain: Three-dimensional proportion system: An approach to cerebral imaging. New York: Thieme.
68. Walhovd, K. B., Fjell, A. M., Reinvang, I., Lundervold, A., Dale, A. M., Eilertsen, D. E., et al. (2005). Effects of age on volumes of cortex, white matter and subcortical structures. Neurobiology of Aging, 26, 1261-1270.
69. Wechsler, D. (1981). Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - revised. San Antonio, TX: The Psychological Corporation.
70. Wolf, U., Wolf, M., Toronov, V., Michalos, A., Paunescu, L. A., & Gratton, E. (2000). Detecting cerebral functional slow and fast signals by frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy using two different sensors. Paper presented at OSA Meeting in Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging and Photon Migration (Miami, April 2-5, 2000).