Aging and prospective memory: the influence of increased task demands at encoding and retrieval
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Prospective memory tasks are usually part of other activities which can affect age diffierences in the performance of these memory tasks. The background activities can have a significant impact in impairing the performance of prospective memory tasks. Age differences are apparent when background activities are demanding. Prospective memory performance is affected in younger adults as well as the aged when background activities are increase.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1997
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Prospective memory and aging: forgetting intentions over short delays
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Research into the effect of aging on the ability to remember to perform a task that was planned at an earlier time is presented, with focus on the effect of using reminders, and on the level of preoccupation of the subject.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2000
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Aging and maintaining intentions over delays: do it or lose it
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The study suggests that age compromises maintenance of information in awareness. Older adults may rely more on plan reformulation and subsequent retrieval of the intention from long-term memory at the end of the delay.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2003
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