Journal article

Assessing Error Awareness as a Mediator of the Relationship between Subjective Concerns and Cognitive Performance in Older Adults

Rachel F Buckley, Gemma Laming, Li Peng Evelyn Chen, Alice Crole, Robert Hester

PLOS ONE | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2016

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Subjective concerns of cognitive decline (SCD) often manifest in older adults who exhibit objectively normal cognitive functioning. This subjective-objective discrepancy is counter-intuitive when mounting evidence suggests that subjective concerns relate to future clinical progression to Alzheimer's disease, and so possess the potential to be a sensitive early behavioural marker of disease. In the current study, we aimed to determine whether individual variability in conscious awareness of errors in daily life might mediate this subjective-objective relationship. METHODS: 67 cognitively-normal older adults underwent cognitive, SCD and mood tests, and an error awareness task. RESU..

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