Executive function plays a foundational role in everyday behaviors across the life span. The
theoretical understanding of executive-function development, however, is still a work in …

Objectives As individuals age, cognitive abilities such as working memory (WM), decline. In
the current study, we investigated the effect of age on WM, and elucidated sources of errors …

Working memory is critical to higher-order executive processes and declines throughout the
adult lifespan. However, our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying this …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by disruptions to cognitive functioning.
Two studies were conducted to examine the relevance of military-related PTSD to two …

How do people internalize visualizations: as images or information? In this study, we
investigate the nature of internalization for visualizations (ie, how the mind encodes …

One of the pivotal structural changes observed in the aging brain pertains to the corpus
callosum, the largest neural pathway interconnecting the two cerebral hemispheres. Studies …

The ability to maintain visual working memory (VWM) associations about the identity and
location of objects has at times been found to decrease with age. To date, however, this age …

Age-related narrowing of the visual field is observed in the elderly, which leads to reduced
cognitive and psychomotor functions. The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to …

This thesis aimed to deepen current understanding of the mechanisms underlying visual
short-term memory (VSTM) impairments in Alzheimer's Disease (AD). The mixture model of …

Le déclin cognitif est une des caractéristiques normales du vieillissement qui peut être
modulée par des facteurs environnementaux. Cet essai doctoral est composé de deux …