Mariagrazia Capizzi (a), Antonino Visalli (b), Giovanna Mioni (c)
(a) Dept. Psicología Experimental y Centro de Investigación Mente Cerebro y Comportamiento (CIMCYC), Universidad de Granada, España
(b) Dept. Neuroscience, University of Padua, Italy
(c) Dept. General Psychology, University of Padua, Italy
(cc) Mariagrazia Capizzi.
A common finding in the literature on time perception is that older adults perform poorly on timing tasks as compared to younger adults. However, it is debated whether this reflects a real difficulty of older adults in temporal processing or it is just a consequence of their reduced cognitive functions. A recent study from our lab tested older adults with different ages and cognitive decline on both explicit and implicit timing tasks. Age and cognitive decline had different effects on explicit and implicit timing tasks, suggesting that implicit timing tasks help understand how older adults process time.
