Brief Strategy Training in Aging: Near Transfer Effects and Mediation of Gains by Improved Self-Regulation.

ABSTRACT: A common approach to cognitive intervention for adults is memory strategy training, but limited work of this type has examined intervention effects in relation to self-regulation (e.g., strategy usage, memory beliefs) and few have established near transfer (training-related performance gain on untrained tasks related to the target task). The present research, Everyday Memory Clinic-Revised (EMC-R), examined whether relatively brief face-name association training, offering elements focused on self-regulation, can improve name recall, enhance memory self-regulation, and lead to near transfer. Participants were 122 healthy, well-educated middle-aged and older adults (51-90 years old) randomly assigned to a strategy training program (SO), a comparable program with a theoretical self-regulatory

SUBMITTER: Strickland-Hughes CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9027409 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature