Adult age differences in interference from a prospective-memory task: a diffusion model analysis.

ABSTRACT: People often slow down their ongoing activities when they must remember an intended action, known as the cost or interference effect of prospective memory (PM). Only a few studies have examined adult age differences in PM interference, and the specific reasons underlying such differences are not well understood. The authors used a model-based approach to reveal processes underlying PM interference and age differences in these processes. Older and younger adults first performed a block of an ongoing lexical decision task alone. An embedded event-based PM task was added in a second block. Simultaneously accounting for the changes in response time distributions and error rates induced by the PM task, Ratcliff's (Psychological Review 85:59-108, 1978) diffusion model was used to decompose the n

SUBMITTER: Horn SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4428577 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature