Our recent work shows that age differences in response-conflict tasks are mostly due to slower processing speed, rather than anything specific to cognitive control. Check it out ⬇️
@jacobsellers.bsky.socialOut now in Psych Science! With @hanzhang.bsky.social John Jonides and @tarazlee.bsky.social
We show that apparent age-related deficits in inhibitory control (often measured by RT congruency effects) can be explained by age differences in processing speed
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Does Global Slowing Explain Age Effects in Inhibitory Control? - Jacob Sellers, Han Zhang, John Jonides, Taraz G. Lee, 2026
A long-standing debate in the study of cognitive aging centers around the issue of whether aging results in a selective deficit in inhibitory control beyond gen...