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Proactive and Coactive Interference in Age-Related Performance in a Recognition-Based Operation Span Task
Author(s) -
Melanie Zeintl,
Matthias Kliegel
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
gerontology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.397
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1423-0003
pISSN - 0304-324X
DOI - 10.1159/000237875
Subject(s) - task (project management) , memory span , psychology , span (engineering) , working memory , interference (communication) , life span , interference theory , audiology , age groups , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , cognition , computer science , neuroscience , gerontology , medicine , telecommunications , channel (broadcasting) , civil engineering , engineering , demography , management , sociology , economics
Generally, older adults perform worse than younger adults in complex working memory span tasks. So far, it is unclear which processes mainly contribute to age-related differences in working memory span.

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