Aging and interference in verbal working memory

Article Abstract:

Research indicates that older adults experience greater retroactive interference effects than young adults when given cognitive tasks in which interfering word pairs spoken aloud require rejection. This indicates that age and sustained activation of irrelevant information are linked within working memory processes.

Psychological aspects, Statistical Data Included, Human information processing, Interference (Linguistics)

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Category norms as a function of culture and age: Comparisons of item responses to 105 categories by American and Chinese Adults

Article Abstract:

The purpose of the study was to obtain norms on a set of categories that are suitable for use in studies of cross-cultural or cross-age differences in cognitive performance. There are substantial differences in category norms between the cultural groups and smaller differences across age groups within each culture.

Aging, Influence, Cognition, Aging (Biology)

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Memory and goal setting: The response of older and younger adults to positive and objective feedback

Article Abstract:

The goals plus positive feedback was compared to the goals plus objective feedback and control using ideal goal-setting conditions with individualized goals. The results indicated that older adults could benefit from goal setting under optimal learning and feedback conditions.

Science & research

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