Aging Attention

tha for, distracting stimuli, due to age-related declines in frontal-based control mechanisms. In this study, we used fMRI to examine age differences in the neural underpinnings of attentional control and their relationship to differences in distractibility and subsequent memory for distraction. Older and younger uggest rmatio, 1988 Hasher, & Thomas, 2010; Schmitz, Cheng, & De Rosa, 2010; for lts is ntrol r the n of Gazzaley, 2011). In younger adults, attentional control is asso-Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect ie