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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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
Awarded by NHMRC/ARC Dementia Research Fellowship
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (grant number 1008044). Dr Buckley is funded by the NHMRC/ARC Dementia Research Fellowship (APP1105576), and A/Prof Hester is funded by Australian Research Council FT110100088.