Age-Related Changes in Hemispherical Specialization for Attentional Networks Casagrande, María Agostini, Francesca Favieri, Francesca Forte, Giuseppe Giovannoli, Jasmine Guarino, Angela Marotta, Andrea Doricchi, Fabrizio Martella, Diana Attention Attentional networks Alerting Orienting Executive control Aging Lateralization Many cognitive functions face a decline in the healthy elderly. Within the cognitive domains, both attentional processes and executive functions are impaired with aging. Attention includes three attentional networks, i.e., alerting, orienting, and executive control, showing a hemispheric lateralized pattern in adults. This lateralized pattern could play a role in modulating the efficiency of attentional networks. For these reasons, it could be relevant to analyze the age-related change of the hemispheric specialization of attentional networks. This study aims to clarify this aspect with a lateralized version of the Attentional Network Test for Interaction (ANTI)-Fruit. One hundred seventy-one participants took part in this study. They were divided in three age groups: youth (N = 57; range: 20–30); adults (N = 57; range 31–64), and elderly/older people (N = 57; range: 65–87). The results confirmed the previous outcomes on the efficiency and interactions among attentional networks. Moreover, an age-related generalized slowness was evidenced. These findings also support the hypothesis of a hemispheric asymmetry reduction in elderly/older adults. 2021-09-22T10:08:38Z 2021-09-22T10:08:38Z 2021 journal article Casagrande, M.; Agostini, F.; Favieri, F.; Forte, G.; Giovannoli, J.; Guarino, A.; Marotta, A.; Doricchi, F.; Martella, D. Age-Related Changes in Hemispherical Specialization for Attentional Networks. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, 1115. https://doi.org/10.3390/ brainsci11091115 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/70357 10.3390/brainsci11091115 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ open access Atribución 3.0 España MDPI