The proportion of working memory items recoverable from long-term memory remains fixed despite adult aging.

Forsberg, Alicia, Guitard, Dominic, Greene, Nathaniel R., Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe and Cowan, Nelson 2022. The proportion of working memory items recoverable from long-term memory remains fixed despite adult aging. Psychology and Aging 37 (7) , pp. 777-786. 10.1037/pag0000703

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Abstract

We explored whether long-term memory (LTM) retrieval is constrained by working memory (WM) limitations, in 80 younger and 80 older adults. Participants performed a WM task with images of unique everyday items, presented at varying set sizes. Subsequently, we tested participants’ LTM for items from the WM task and examined the ratio of LTM/WM retention. While older adults’ WM and LTM were generally poorer than that of younger adults, their LTM deficit was no greater than what was predicted from their WM performance. The ability to encode WM information into LTM appeared immune to age-related cognitive decline.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
ISSN:	0882-7974
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	18 November 2022
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2023 17:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/153407

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