Age‐related advantage for recall of complex naturalistic information following cognitive offloading
Lois K. Burnett,
Lauren L. Richmond
Abstract:Previous work on cognitive offloading has found that young and older adults create and use external memory aids to boost performance on simple memory‐based tasks. To date, little work has investigated whether cognitive offloading can benefit performance when the memoranda are complex and naturalistic. In this study, 64 participants (32 young adults aged 18–26 years and 32 older adults aged 60+ years) studied facts about health conditions, then completed free recall and old‐new recognition tests under two condi… Show more
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