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Age-related differences in control processes in verbal and visuospatial working memory — storage, transformation, supervision and coordination
Author(s)	Kara L Bopp, Paul Verhaeghen
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 5, September 2007
Pages	pp P239-P246
Source	http://www.geron.org
Keywords	Memory and Reminiscence ; Mental ageing ; Learning capacity ; Mental clarity ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Comparison ; United States of America.
Annotation	Based on tests comprising repetition detection tasks of 33 younger adults (mean age 19.1) and 29 older adults (mean age 70.72), it was found that older adults processed information more slowly and less accurately than did younger adults, especially in the visuospatial task. However, there were no process-specific age-related differences in the visuospatial domain. In the verbal domain, task conditions requiring supervision and co-ordination showed larger age effects than the baseline or transformation conditions. Taken together, the findings provide support for a process- and domain-specific account of age-related differences in cognitive control, which may be tied to an age-related deficit in the maintenance of two separate sets of representations. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-080306201 A
Classmark	DB: D6: DE: DF: BB: SD6: 48: 7T
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