20.500.12556/RUL-134963 Cognitive control challenge task across the lifespan Meeting everyday challenges and responding in a goal-directed manner requires both the ability to maintain the current task set in face of distractors—stable cognitive control, and the ability to flexibly generate or switch to a new task set when environmental requirements change—flexible cognitive control. While studies show that the development varies across individual component processes supporting cognitive control, little is known about changes in complex stable and flexible cognitive control across the lifespan. In the present study, we used the newly developed Cognitive Control Challenge Task (C3T) to examine the development of complex stable and flexible cognitive control across the lifespan and to gain insight into their interdependence. A total of 340 participants (229 women, age range 8–84 years) from two samples participated in the study, in which they were asked to complete the C3T along with a series of standard tests of individual components of cognitive control. The results showed that the development of both stable and flexible complex cognitive control follows the expected inverted U-curve. In contrast, the indeces of task set formation and task set switching cost increase linearly across the lifespan, suggesting that stable and flexible complex cognitive control are subserved by separable cognitive systems with different developmental trajectories. Correlations with standard cognitive tests indicate that complex cognitive control captured by the C3T engages a broad range of cognitive abilities, such as working memory and planning, and reflects global processing speed, jointly suggesting that the C3T is an effective test of complex cognitive control that has both research and diagnostic potential. cognitive control cognitive processes task switching aging Cognitive control challenge task C3T stable cognitive control flexible cognitive control cognitive control challenge task development task set switching lifespan kognitivni nadzor kognitivni procesi preklapljanje med nalogami staranje true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2022-02-14 09:56:06 2022-02-14 09:56:11 2023-05-13 03:36:47 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022 0 0 23 str. Vol. 12, art. 789816 2022 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 159.95:616.8 1664-1078 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.789816 97026563 RAZ_Politakis_Vida_Ana_2022.pdf RAZ_Politakis_Vida_Ana_2022.pdf 1 6B57FBB7DE06717ACD8A101B545144CB 54a317bee07171de88855d605c66be490a87e429987370e1e54ddfb1c0018e4b a9544a85-8d75-11ec-abdb-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=153738 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.789816/full 1 b92e58fb-8d73-11ec-abdb-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=153736 Medicinska fakulteta Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0