Elizabeth A. Lydon

Elizabeth A. Lydon
Miami University | MU · Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology

Doctor of Philosophy

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Education
August 2018 - August 2024
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Field of study
  • Speech and Hearing Science
September 2012 - June 2014
Portland State University
Field of study
  • Speech-Language Pathology
August 2008 - May 2012
University of Colorado Boulder
Field of study
  • Linguistics & Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Publications

Publications (28)
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Resting state electroencephalography (EEG) activity captures spontaneous neural activity while at rest. Mounting evidence suggests that resting state EEG activity is linked to cognitive performance and event-related potentials in young adults. However, little is known on the relationship between resting state EEG activity and event-related spectral...
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In the U.S., adults aged 65 and above represent the second largest age group among familial caregivers. Navigating dual challenges in caregiving demands and their own aging process may lead to higher risk of social isolation for older caregivers. However, research regarding loneliness among older caregivers remains limited. This study aimed to (a)...
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Understanding the daily challenges experienced by older adults living with cognitive impairment is essential for developing strategies to support their health and quality of life. These impairments involve cognitive changes that can pose barriers to daily activities, especially complex tasks such as managing medications. However, the specific diffi...
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Caregivers of persons with dementia (PwD) often experience increased social isolation, loneliness, and negative health outcomes. While support groups provide critical education and connection for care partners, there is less opportunity for engagement outside of the caregiving role. We developed and assessed the benefits of a technology-based socia...
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Older adults with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) experience a decline in episodic memory but do not meet diagnostic criteria for dementia. Mounting evidence suggests other aspects of cognition may be impacted, including behavioral and neural alterations in conflict monitoring. Neural underpinnings of these changes have been captured throu...
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Aging and caregiving are each risk factors for loneliness, but little is known about loneliness among older caregivers. Using the 2020 California Health Interview Survey ( N = 7638), this study examined the relationship between (1) caregiving status and loneliness among older adults; (2) sociodemographic, technology, health, and caregiving characte...
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Background Growing evidence suggests that increasing opportunities for social engagement has the potential to support successful aging. However, many older adults may have limited access to in-person social engagement opportunities due to barriers such as transportation. We outline the development, design, methodology, and baseline characteristics...
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Care partners of persons with dementia provide critical support towards meeting the needs of their care recipients. Despite the increasing number of family care partners and their growing responsibilities related to caregiving activities, resources available to support their personal needs are limited (e.g., respite from caring, social engagement)....
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Older adults, especially those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), are at increasing risk of social isolation and loneliness, leading to poorer health outcomes. Video technology has the potential to provide socially and cognitively engaging activities from their homes. We are exploring the benefits of a virtual social engagement intervention in o...
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Semantic memory remains relatively stable with normal cognitive aging and declines in early stages of neurodegenerative disease. We measured electroencephalography (EEG) oscillatory correlates of semantic memory retrieval to examine the effects of normal and pathological aging. Twenty-nine cognitively healthy young adults (YA), 22 cognitively healt...
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Social engagement is critical for maintaining well-being and quality of life in older adults. However, typical age-related changes across bio-psychosocial dimensions as well as age-related conditions such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), pose many challenges for older adults to remain socially connected. The development of technologies, specific...
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The task switching paradigm is widely used to examine cognitive switching, a critical subcomponent of cognitive control. Studies on aging suggest that switching is particularly vulnerable to age-related changes in cognition. However, the effects of manipulating the stimulus dimension on task switching performance is relatively understudied. In this...
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Older adults aging with cognitive impairments face a variety of challenges related to their memory, thinking, and concentration in their everyday activities. Understanding their lived experiences s critical to inform the development of technology and supports that can help everyday activities and improve quality of life. We have designed an in-dept...
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Semantic memory remains relatively stable with normal cognitive aging and declines in early stages of neurodegenerative disease. We measured electroencephalography (EEG) oscillatory correlates of semantic memory retrieval to examine the effects of normal and pathological aging. Twenty-nine cognitively healthy young adults (YA), 22 cognitively healt...
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Value-directed strategic processing involves attending to higher-value information while inhibiting lower-value information. This preferential processing is relatively preserved in cognitively normal older adults but is impaired in individuals with dementia. No studies have investigated whether value-directed strategic processing is disrupted in ea...
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Background : Growing evidence suggests changes in cognitive control in persons with age-related hearing loss (ARHL), however, the nature of these alterations especially in those with mild ARHL needs further investigation. Methods : This study examined group differences in cognitive control between 20 older adults with unaided mild ARHL and 20 age-...
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Social isolation and loneliness in older adults are associated with poor health outcomes and have been linked to an increased risk of cognitive impairment and incident dementia. Social engagement has been identified as a key factor in promoting positive health behaviors and quality of life and preventing social isolation and loneliness. Studies inv...
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Value-directed strategic processing involves selectively attending to and processing information deemed more important while ignoring or inhibiting less important information. What we selectively attend to can be driven by the value we ascribe to the information, often based on stimulus factors such as perceptual features that make the information...
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Amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) is marked by episodic memory deficits, which is used to classify individuals into early MCI (EMCI) and late MCI (LMCI). Growing evidence suggests that individuals with EMCI and LMCI differ in other cognitive functions including cognitive control, but these are less frequently studied. Using a semantic Go/No...
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ENACT (Everyday Needs Assessment for Cognitive Tasks) is an exploration and discovery project to gather information on challenges in daily and community living experienced by individuals aging with compromised cognition due to mild cognitive impairment, traumatic brain injury, or post-stroke. We are exploring their challenges through a longitudinal...
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Amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) is marked by episodic memory deficits, which can be used to classify individuals into early MCI (EMCI) and late MCI (LMCI). Although mounting evidence suggests that individuals with aMCI have additional cognitive alterations including deficits in cognitive control, few have examined if EMCI and LMCI differ...
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Growing evidence suggests alterations in cognitive control processes in individuals with varying degrees of age-related hearing loss (ARHL); however, alterations in those with unaided mild ARHL are understudied. The current study examined two cognitive control processes, cognitive flexibility, and inhibition, in 21 older adults with unaided mild ARH...
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Social engagement technologies have the potential to benefit health and quality of life in older adults with and without mild cognitive impairment (MCI). However, technologies are rarely designed to accommodate the interests, capabilities, and limitations of these populations. In the current study, we focused on examining the potential of video cha...

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