期刊名称：Revue de Neuropsychologie Neurosciences Cognitives et Cliniques
印刷版ISSN：2101-6739
电子版ISSN：2102-6025
出版年度：2015
卷号：7
期号：4
页码：257-268
DOI：10.1684/nrp.2015.0359
出版社：John Libbey Eurotext
摘要：Figures Tables Authors Cristina Calso 1 * Jérémy Besnard 1 Cosimo Calò 2 Philippe Allain 13 1 Université d’Angers, Maison des sciences humaines, Laboratoire de psychologie des Pays-de-Loire (EA 4638), 5 bis, boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers cedex 01, France 2 Institut Mines-Télécom/Télécom SudParis, SAMOVAR–CNRS UMR 5157, 91011 Évry, France 3 CHU d’Angers, Département de neurologie, Unité de neuropsychologie, 4, rue Larrey, 49033 Angers cedex 01, France * Correspondance Key words: normal aging, executive functions, decision-making, energization, theory of mind DOI : 10.1684/nrp.2015.0359 Page(s) : 257-68 Published in: 2015 In this study, we aimed at assessing four types of frontal lobe functions (Stuss, 2008) in normal aging: executive control, decision-making, energization and theory of mind, to evaluate the “frontal lobe hypothesis of cognitive aging” (West, 1996). In addition, we take into account the elderly's level of activities of daily living and quality of life. In this framework, thirty-three healthy young adults (aged 20 to 40) and twenty-nine healthy older adults (aged 65 to 90) participated in our study. Comparisons between the two groups show that the performances of older adults are significantly lower than that of younger participants on all neuropsychological tasks, except on reading, verbal fluency, implicit decision-making, reaction time (number of errors) and tone-paced (1500 ms) tasks. Normal aging seems also characterized by a reduction in the processing speed during the tasks. Furthermore, our results suggest that some of the executive processes and energization skills, explicit decision-making and theory of mind would deteriorate with aging. A positive correlation has been found between the level of activities of daily living and the performances of older adults on executive and energization tasks. From these observations, we confirm the relevance of multidimensional theoretical approach of frontal lobes functioning to study normal cognitive aging.
关键词：normal aging; executive functions; decision-making; energization; theory of mind
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