Aging, inhibition, working memory, and speed

TA Salthouse, EJ Meinz - The Journals of Gerontology Series B …, 1995 - academic.oup.com
An implication of the hypothesis that failures of inhibition contribute to adult age differences
in working memory (Hasher & Zacks, 1988) is that statistical control of measures of inhibition …

Age differences in inhibition: Possible causes and consequences

JL Earles, LT Connor, D Frieske, DC Park… - Aging …, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
The relations among age, inhibition, perceptual speed, susceptibility to interference, and
working memory were examined in a sample of 301 adults age 20 to 90. Younger adults …

Working memory and inhibition across the adult life-span

E Borella, B Carretti, R De Beni - Acta psychologica, 2008 - Elsevier
Research has shown that age-related changes in cognitive performance are due mostly to
the decline of general factors such as working memory and inhibition. The present study is …

Inhibitory changes after age 60 and their relationship to measures of attention and memory

CC Persad, N Abeles, RT Zacks… - The Journals of …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
This study examined the relationship between age and inhibitory functioning within a
sample of older adults ranging in age from 60 to 85 years old. On the basis of earlier …

Assessing the age-related effects of proactive interference on working memory tasks using the Rasch model.

RP Bowles, TA Salthouse - Psychology and aging, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
Inhibition-reduction theory (L. Hasher & R. Zacks, 1988) hypothesizes that the age-related
decline in working memory (WM) span is a result of a decrease in the ability to inhibit …

The aging of working memory.

TA Salthouse - Neuropsychology, 1994 - psycnet.apa.org
Research concerned with relations between adult age and working memory is reviewed,
especially that relevant to the AD Baddeley (1986, 1992; Baddeley & G. Hitch, 1974) model …

Age and working memory: the role of perceptual speed, the central executive, and the phonological loop.

JE Fisk, P Warr - Psychology and aging, 1996 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract In a study (N= 61) comparing older (age range= 60–80 years, M= 67) and younger
(age range= 20–33 years, M= 25) people, age deficits were observed in working memory …

Age differences and changes in reaction time: the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging

JL Fozard, M Vercruyssen, SL Reynolds… - Journal of …, 1994 - academic.oup.com
This study analyzed auditory reaction time (RT) data from 1,265 community-dwelling
volunteers (833 males and 432 females) who ranged in age from 17 to 96. Cross-sectional …

Isolating the age deficit in speeded performance

TA Salthouse, BL Somberg - Journal of Gerontology, 1982 - academic.oup.com
The 'locus' of the age-associated behavioral slowing was investigated with Sternberg's
additive-factor method of identifying information processing stages. The factor of adult age …

General and specific speed mediation of adult age differences in memory

TA Salthouse - The Journals of Gerontology Series B …, 1996 - academic.oup.com
The proposal that age-related differences in some measures of speed of performance may
not be independent of the age-related differences in other measures of speed of …