Age correlates with detection performance: hits and d′ increase and false alarms decrease with age¶

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q3 i3 Percentage of hits and d′ were positively correlated with age, and percentage of false alarms was negatively correlated with age. → Thillay A 2015

q3 i3 Older age was associated with increased % of hits, reduced % of false alarms, and increased sensitivity d′ in a visual target detection task, with the most dramatic d′ increase from early to late adolescence. → Thillay A 2015

Evidence¶

Thillay A 2015¶

Thillay A, Roux S, Gissot V, Carteau-Martin I, Knight RT, Bonnet-Brilhault F and Bidet-Caulet A (2015) Sustained attention and prediction: distinct brain maturation trajectories during adolescence. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 9:519. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00519

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Pearson correlation analyses across the 36 participants related behavioral sustained-attention measures to age. The study reports "r = 0.502, b = 0.119, p = 0.002" for d′ with age and "r =−0.401, b =−0.072, p = 0.015" for false alarms, supporting continued maturation of sustained attention after age 12.

"The % of hits to the randTs and d’ were positively correlated with age ( r = 0.393, b = 0.869, p = 0.018, or r = 0.502, b = 0.119, p = 0.002; respectively). The % of FAs was negatively correlated with age ( r =−0.401, b =−0.072, p = 0.015)."

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