ArticleExperimental aging research
Resolving Age-Related Differences in Working Memory: Equating Perception and Attention Makes Older Adults Remember as Well as Younger Adults.
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- Longevity as a Responsibility: Constructing Healthy Aging by Enacting within Contexts over the Entire Lifespan.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Impact of Diet and Exercise Interventions on Cognition and Brain Health in Older Adults: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Multiple identity tracking strategies vary by age: An ERP study.Neuropsychologia · 2020Article
- Now you feel it, now you don't: Motivated attention to emotional content is modulated by age and task demands.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
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objectivesOlder adults show clear deficits in working memory functioning. Here, we investigate the often-reported decline in focus switching, that is, the ability to shift items from the focus of attention into working memory, and back. Specifically, we examined whether equating subjects on early processing (perception and attention) might ameliorate the deficit.
methodWe examined 1-Back and 2-Back performance in younger and older adults, with line segments of different orientation as the stimuli. Stimuli were calibrated depending on each individual's 75% threshold for 1-Back performance. Subjects made match/mismatch judgments.
resultsAfter the calibration on 1-Back performance, no age-related differences were found on either accuracy or sensitivity in the 2-Back task. Additionally, when investigating focus-switch trials versus non-focus-switch trials in a random-order 2-Back task, older adults were more efficient at switching the focus of attention than younger adults. DISCUSSION: These results provide evidence for the view that age-related limitations in focus switching in working memory are caused (at least in part) by changes in early processing (perception and attention), suggesting that (at least some of the) age-related differences in working memory functioning may be due to shifts in trade-off between early processing and memory-related processing.
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