A simulation of older adults' associative memory deficit using structural process interference in young adults.

ABSTRACT: Associative memory deficit underlies a part of older adults' deficient episodic memory due to the reduced ability to bind units of information. In this article we further assess the mechanism underlying this deficit, by assessing the degree to which we can model it in young adults under conditions of divided attention. We shall describe two experiments in this paper; these experiments investigate item and associative recognition in young adults under full- or divided-attention conditions. The secondary tasks employed were N-back like (NBL), which serves as a working memory updating task, and parity judgement and visuospatial (VS) tasks, which serve as non-working memory tasks. The results of both experiments show that only the NBL specifically affected associative recognition, while the ot

SUBMITTER: Oscar-Strom Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8601526 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature