ArticleScientific reports2020
Learning by task repetition enhances object individuation and memorization in the elderly.
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- Effects of Acute Aerobic Exercise and Task Repetition on the Neural Correlates of Executive Function in Young and Older Adults: A Crossover fMRI Study.Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI · 2026Trial
- Practice improves older adults' attentional control and prospective memory more than HD-tDCS: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Incentives and practice improve prospective memory performance in older adults.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Article
- Dendritic Spines of Layer 5 Pyramidal Neurons of the Aging Somatosensory Cortex Exhibit Reduced Volumetric Remodeling.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Training attentive individuation leads to visuo-spatial working memory improvement in low-performing older adults: An online study.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Aging and feature binding in visual working memory.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- What Can Neural Activity Tell Us About Cognitive Resources in Aging?Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Inter- and Intra-Hemispheric Age-Related Remodeling in Visuo-Spatial Working Memory.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
A decline in visuospatial Working Memory (vWM) is a hallmark of cognitive aging across various tasks, and facing this decline has become the target of several studies. In the current study we tested whether older adults can benefit from task repetition in order to improve their performance in a vWM task. While learning by task repetition has been shown to improve vWM performance in young adulthood, little is known on whether a similar enhancement can be achieved also by the aging population. By combining different behavioral and electrophysiological measures, we investigated whether practicing a specific task (delayed match-to-sample judgement) over four consecutive sessions could improve vWM in healthy aging, and which are the neurophysiological and cognitive mechanisms modulated by learning. Behavioral data revealed that task repetition boosted performance in older participants, both in terms of sensitivity to change (as revealed by d' measures) as well as capacity estimate (as measured by k values). At the electrophysiological level, results indicated that only after task repetition both target individuation (as evidenced by the N2pc) and vWM maintenance (as reflected by the CDA) were modulated by target numerosity. Our results suggest that repetition learning is effective in enhancing vWM in aging and acts through modifications at different stages of stimulus processing.
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