Order, please! Explicit sequence learning in hybrid search in younger and older age.

ABSTRACT: Sequence learning effects in simple perceptual and motor tasks are largely unaffected by normal aging. However, less is known about sequence learning in more complex cognitive tasks that involve attention and memory processes and how this changes with age. In this study, we examined whether incidental and intentional sequence learning would facilitate hybrid visual and memory search in younger and older adults. Observers performed a hybrid search task, in which they memorized four or 16 target objects and searched for any of those target objects in displays with four or 16 objects. The memorized targets appeared either in a repeating sequential order or in random order. In the first experiment, observers were not told about the sequence before the experiment. Only a subset of younger adult

SUBMITTER: Wiegand I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8313466 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature