Working memory and inhibition across the adult life-span

Borella, Erika; Carretti, Barbara; Béni, Rossana De

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2007.09.008

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“…As expected, and in line with the literature (e.g., Borella et al 2008;Camerino et al 2006;Müller et al 2013;Salthouse 2009;Schaie 1994;Schnitzspahn et al 2013), we found substantial age differences in subjective work ability and subjective health as well as in cognitive resources (i.e., crystallized intelligence, cognitive speed, short-term memory, working memory, and inhibition). Consistent with the predictions derived from the framework of Fadyl et al (2010), we also found substantial (positive) associations of a variety of specific cognitive functions with subjective work ability and health (particularly for shortterm memory, working memory, and inhibition).…”

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“…In terms of predictions, we expected that older individuals show lower work ability and health (e.g., Camerino et al 2006;Müller et al 2013;Pohjonen 2001) as well as lower short-term and working memory, cognitive speed, and inhibition but better performance in crystallized intelligence (e.g., Borella et al 2008;Salthouse 2009;Schaie 1994;Schnitzspahn et al 2013). Moreover, based on the framework of Fadyl et al (2010), we predicted that cognitive resources are related to work ability and health.…”

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“…However, so far, empirical research on this issue is sparse, lacking a comprehensive examination of cognitive resources in this context, especially with respect to the aging workforce. Considering that cognitive resources show substantial changes across adulthood (e.g., Salthouse 2009;Schaie 1994), possibly even magnifies the importance of cognitive resources in predicting work ability and health with increasing age; While knowledge and crystallized intelligence tend to be largely preserved (or even better) in older individuals, it is well documented that other facets of cognitive resources such as short-term and working memory performance, cognitive speed, and inhibition rapidly decline in aging (e.g., Borella et al 2008;Salthouse 2009;Schaie 1994;Schnitzspahn et al 2013). Thus, it was the major aim of the present study to further elucidate on the relation of cognitive resources with work ability and health in the aging workforce.…”

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“…In the following study, we targeted four core control variables as they have been shown to critically influence work ability and health in older adults: age, education, depressive symptoms, and self-regulation strategies. First, as both cognitive functioning and work ability/health show substantial age relations (e.g., Borella et al 2008;Camerino et al 2006;Müller et al 2013;Salthouse 2009;Schaie 1994;Schnitzspahn et al 2013), it may be likely that a relation between cognition and work ability/health is simply driven by the possibility that these variables share a substantial amount of variance in terms of age-related differences. Thus, it seems important to control for age differences in the inspected variables to evaluate the strength of the association between cognitive functioning and work ability/health over and above such effects.…”

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The role of cognitive resources for subjective work ability and health in nursing

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Cognitive resources can be considered to be key variables in the context of work ability and health, particularly in the aging workforce. However, research on this issue is sparse, lacking a comprehensive examination of specific cognitive functions. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine the association of cognitive resources with subjective work ability and health in more detail. In 166 geriatric care workers (mean age 42.1 years, SD = 11.5, range 20-62), subjective work ability and health were assessed. Additionally, a comprehensive battery of cognitive tests measuring crystallized intelligence, cognitive speed, shortterm memory, working memory, and inhibition was administered in a standardized procedure. Controlling for individual differences in age, education, depressive symptoms, selfregulation strategies (in terms of selective optimization with compensation), and cognitive resources (particularly better performance in short-term memory, working memory, and inhibition) were related to better subjective work ability and health. The present results demonstrate the relation of a variety of specific cognitive functions with subjective work ability and health over and above individual differences in age, education, depressive symptoms, and self-regulation strategies. Implications to explicitly consider a set of cognitive resources in models of work and organizational psychology, particularly with respect to the aging workforce, are discussed.

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“…Categorization Working Memory Span Task The Categorization Working Memory Span task (CWMS; Borella et al 2008;Borella et al 2010) was was used as criterion task for the training progress. We used the adapted version by Borella et al (2010) and translated it into French.…”

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Improving Older Adults’ Working Memory: the Influence of Age and Crystallized Intelligence on Training Outcomes

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To counter age-related decline in cognitive abilities, interventions such as working memory trainings have shown some promising results in old age. Yet, findings are mixed and there is enormous interindividual variability in training and transfer effects. Thus, it is still an open question which person-specific factors may moderate training and transfer effects in working memory interventions in older adults. The present study investigated this issue in the context of an established verbal working memory training. Eighty-eight participants (age range 60-82 years) performed either four sessions of the Borella et al. (Psychology and Aging 25(4):767-778, 2010) working memory training or of a visual search training as active control condition or belonged to a passive control group. Before and after the training, participants performed a test battery to assess different cognitive abilities and everyday competence. Furthermore, we included questionnaires on personality factors and intrinsic motivation as possible covariates. The training group showed a substantial training gain in the working memory criterion task that was not found in the active control group. Furthermore, only participants of the working memory training showed also near transfer to another working memory task. No far transfer effects including everyday competence emerged. In terms of possible moderators, age and crystallized intelligence influenced the training and transfer gain in the training group. In conclusion, our results showed that working memory can be improved in older adults and improvements transfer to a nontrained working memory task. However, person-specific factors have to be considered to understand who benefits from the training and why.

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Recognition Practice Results in a Generalizable Skill in Older Adults: Decreased Intrusion Errors to Novel Objects Belonging to Practiced Categories

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Maldonado

2016

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Accessing memories is often accompanied by both positive and negative consequences. For example, practice recognizing some visual images held in memory can improve memory for the practiced images and hurt memory for related images (i.e., recognition-induced forgetting). However, visual stimuli have been shown to improve memory for older adults by decreasing false memories. This suggests that older adults may be immune to recognition-induced forgetting and that recognition practice may decrease susceptibility to intrusion errors. We first tested the hypothesis that older adults are immune to recognitioninduced forgetting. We found older adults exhibit recognition-induced forgetting. Next, we tested the hypothesis that recognition practice decreases older adult's rates of intrusion errors. We found lower intrusion errors for novel objects from practiced categories. This represents a generalizable learning effect; practice recognizing a target object (e.g., your pill bottle) improves the rejection of new lures (e.g., identifying the pill bottle that is not yours).

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Working memory and inhibition across the adult life-span

Cited by 236 publications

References 91 publications

The role of cognitive resources for subjective work ability and health in nursing

The role of cognitive resources for subjective work ability and health in nursing

Improving Older Adults’ Working Memory: the Influence of Age and Crystallized Intelligence on Training Outcomes

Recognition Practice Results in a Generalizable Skill in Older Adults: Decreased Intrusion Errors to Novel Objects Belonging to Practiced Categories

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