The influence of long-term memory on working memory: Age-differences in proactive facilitation and interference.

ABSTRACT: Prior learning can hinder subsequent memory, especially when there is conflict between old and new information. The ability to handle this proactive interference is an important source of differences in memory performance between younger and older adults. In younger participants, Oberauer et al. (2017, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43[1], 1) report evidence of proactive facilitation from previously learned information in a working memory task in the absence of proactive interference between long-term and working memory. In the present work, we examine the generality of these findings to different stimulus materials and to older adults. Participants first learned image-word associations and then completed an image-word working memory task. Some pairs w

SUBMITTER: Rhodes S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8318553 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature