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标题：La medición del tiempo de reacción en los estudios con personas mayores: Necesidad de un acuerdo terminológico
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作者：Julia León Rodríguez ; Antonio Oña Sicilia ; Olga Vasconcelos 等
期刊名称：Revista de Psicología del Deporte
印刷版ISSN：1132-239X
电子版ISSN：1988-5636
出版年度：2015
卷号：24
期号：2
页码：351-359
语种：Spanish
出版社：Universitat de les Illes Balears
其他摘要：Numerous studies have recently aimed to quantify and/or improve reaction time in elderly people. This variable is considered to be a bio-marker of cognitive ageing, related to dementia and even mortality. However, the absence of a unified criterion regarding the term has led to incorrectuse by several authors. For this reason, the aim of this review was to identify the most commonly used method to measure reaction time in studies withelderly people and to find out whether the term was used correctly. After checking Scopus, PubMed and PsycINFO databases (from January 2008 toJune 2013), 84 original papers were included. The results showed that most studies used the simple reaction time test in which the participant was sittingwith one upper limb lying on a button which s/he had to press upon detecting a visual stimulus. Terminological confusion was found in the literature re-garding the term reaction time, owing to wrong measurement of this variable in most of the studies analysed, by including the movement time phase. Inline with this, we consider it essential to raise awareness concerning the need to reach agreement on the term, which will favour progress in research onreaction time as a factor to prevent or reduce cognitive ageing.
其他关键词：Reaction time; Response time; Older adults.