“…Indeed, this alternative explanation also cannot account for the growing body of evidence suggesting that exposure to a variety of different types of information, both relevant and irrelevant, plays a greater role in subsequent task performance for older than for younger adults due to age-related decrements in inhibitory processing (cf. Biss, Rowe, Weeks, Hasher, & Murphy, 2018; Hartman & Hasher, 1991; Hasher, Quig, & May, 1997; Hasher et al, 1999; Healey et al, 2008; Neumann et al, 2018; Radel et al, 2015). Consistent with this, our findings indicate that older adults’ creativity is enhanced with relevant distraction, compared to younger adults.…”