Correlates of Age Effects in Typical Working Memory Span TestsSummary: Age effects in working memory span tests are well confirmed in recent cognitive gerontology. However, few studies have targeted the role of non-executive and executive processes in ...
Are Age Differences in Working Memory Performance the Consequence of Increasing Interference Distractibility?According to the inhibition theory of aging, lower levels of memory span performance for older than for younger adults results from a more severe ...
Zusammenfassung: Dem Hemmungsdefizit-Modell zufolge beruhen im Alter verringerte Leistungen in komplexen Spannenaufgaben auf einer nachlassenden Interferenzresistenz. In einer Studie mit je 64 jungen (19-33 Jahre) und älteren Erwachsenen (58-80 Jahre) ...
Focus-switching has recently been identified as an executive control process with differential age sensitivity. To date, the assumption of dissociable age effects is based on only two kinds of tasks constricting its conclusiveness. In a study with 85 ...
We considered the functional role of control beliefs for cognitive performance by focusing on patterns of stability across multiple trials increasing in level of difficulty. We assessed 56 adults aged 18–88 on working memory tasks. We examined stability ...
This study examined the processing speed and memory span of young adults and older people using tasks based on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III (WAIS-III, Wechsler, 1997). By comparing the data obtained from these tasks, we examined the effects ...
Abstract. This study explored the feasibility of the German WM application EI-MAG in younger and, in a first attempt, older adults. Contrary to previous applications, EI-MAG is group-administrable and tablet-based. 89 older and 35 younger adults were ...