Relative to younger adults, older adults tend to perform more poorly on tests of both free
recall and item recognition memory. The age difference in performance is typically larger for …

Working memory is an ensemble of components that temporarily hold information in a
heightened state of availability for use in ongoing information processing. Working memory …

Now updated for its second edition, this illuminating textbook explores the developmental
stages and changes during adulthood that define some of the most pivotal years of our lives …

Background: The notion that memory performance in older adults can be boosted by
information provided by the environment was proposed by Craik (1983). The suggestion …

Significance Spatial working memory (SWM) is essential for daily life and deficits in this
domain represent a common impairment across aging and several mental disorders …

Working memory as a field of research has long been characterised by productive
development at both the theoretical and practical levels. The multicomponent approach …

Age-related decline in ability to bind and remember conjunctions of features has been
proposed as an explanation for the pronounced decline of visual working memory (WM) in …

Frederic Bartlett championed the importance of individual strategy differences when
remembering details of events. I will describe how long-running theoretical debates in the …

Performing multiple tasks in parallel is detrimental to performance, a phenomenon
generically referred to as dual-task interference (DTi). Several variables can modulate DTi at …

Cognitive flexibility is one of the crucial abilities for human survival. As people get older,
whether their flexibility ability will be affected is one of the core research topics in aging …