Effects of aging on interference control in selective attention and working memory
| Autor: | Michele Barollo, Selene Cansino, Massimiliano Martinelli, Daniela Guzzon, Clara Casco |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Male Aging media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychological Tests Interference (genetic) Developmental psychology Young Adult Intrusion Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Perception Interference control Humans Attention Selective attention Young adult Control (linguistics) Inhibition Aged media_common Working memory Inhibition Psychological Memory Short-Term Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Younger adults Female Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Memory & Cognition. 39:1409-1422 |
| ISSN: | 1532-5946 0090-502X |
| Popis: | Working memory decay in advanced age has been attributed to a concurrent decrease in the ability to control interference. The present study contrasted a form of interference control in selective attention that acts upon the perception of external stimuli (access) with another form that operates on internal representations in working memory (deletion), in order to determine both of their effects on working memory efficiency in younger and older adults. Additionally, we compared memory performance under these access and deletion functions to performance in their respective control conditions. The results indicated that memory accuracy improved in both age groups from the access functions, but that only young adults benefited from the deletion functions. In addition, intrusion effects in the deletion condition were larger in older than in younger adults. The ability to control the irrelevant perception- and memory-elicited interference did not decline in general with advancing age; rather, the control mechanisms that operate on internal memory representations declined specifically. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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