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No Evidence for a Common Factor Underlying Visual Abilities in Healthy Older People

Shaqiri, Albulena  
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Pilz, Karin S.  
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Cretenoud, Aline F.  
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August 1, 2019
Developmental Psychology

The world's population is aging at an increasing rate. Even in the absence of neurodegenerative disorders, healthy aging affects perception and cognition. In the context of cognition, common factors are well established. Much less is known about common factors for vision. Here, we tested 92 healthy older and 104 healthy younger participants in 19 visual tests (including visual search and contrast sensitivity) and three cognitive tests (including verbal fluency and digit span). Unsurprisingly, younger participants performed better than older participants in almost all tests. Surprisingly, however, the performance of older participants was mostly uncorrelated between visual tests, and we found no evidence for a common factor.

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research article
DOI
10.1037/dev0000740
Web of Science ID

WOS:000476498000019

Author(s)
Shaqiri, Albulena  
Pilz, Karin S.  
Cretenoud, Aline F.  
Neumann, Konrad
Clarke, Aaron  
Kunchulia, Marina
Herzog, Michael H.  
Date Issued

2019-08-01

Publisher

AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC

Published in
Developmental Psychology
Volume

55

Issue

8

Start page

1775

End page

1787

Subjects

Psychology, Developmental

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Psychology

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aging

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perception

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common factor

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cognition

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working-memory capacity

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individual-differences

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motion

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performance

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age

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attention

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acuity

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discrimination

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vernier

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adults

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