Young-Old City-Dwellers Outperform Village Counterparts in Attention and Verbal Control Tasks

• Published in: Frontiers in psychology Vol. 10; p. 1224
• Main Authors: Stepankova Georgi, Hana, Frydrychova, Zuzana, Horakova Vlckova, Karolina, Vidovicova, Lucie, Sulc, Zdenek, Lukavsky, Jiri
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 28.05.2019
• Subjects: aging; attention; cognition; environment; Psychology; rural; urban; environment; cognition; urban; rural; test norms; attention; aging

Cognitive performance is dynamic and shaped by individual biological and environmental factors throughout life. In psychology, besides the effects of age, education, and other often studied factors, the complexity of the lived-in environment and urbanicity in that context are yet to be elucidated. I...