When: Monday, Jan 15, 2018 @ 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Where:  Norm Endler Seminar Room (BSB 164)

Speaker: Annalise D'Souza, York University

Title: Deconstructing a cognitive process: Fractionation and developmental change in task switching

Abstract: The talk will describe fractionating a higher-order cognitive process and studying change across the lifespan using a large Internet-based dataset (n=14,732). First I will describe using the Additive Factors Method, a process decomposition technique that aims to statistically fractionate a complex cognitive process into subprocesses. Second, the talk will discuss modelling fine-grained age-related change in performance. Segmented/piece-wise regression was used to model the lifespan trajectories in performance and identify the transition periods at which shifts occurred.