Dr. Mei Lien HDFS Presentation Age-related Differences in Task Switching: Does Internal Cognitive Control Decline with Age?
Center for Healthy Aging Research Fall Colloquium series
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Center for Healthy Aging Presents: Dr. Mei Lien, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Oregon State University. Dr. Mei Lien studies human attention and performance using both behavioral
measures (e.g. response time and accuracy) and electrophysiological measures (e.g. brain activity). Specific research objectives are to determine why it is hard to perform two tasks at once, why it
is hard to switch between cognitive tasks, and how executive control over cognition change across the lifespan.
