Working-memory updating training in younger and older adults: Training and transfer effects

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tilo Strobach ◽  
Tiina Salminen ◽  
Petra Redel ◽  
Kathrin Finke ◽  
Torsten Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Working Memory ◽  
Transfer Effects ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Working Memory Updating

scholarly journals Spontaneous Eye Blinks Predict Executive Functioning in Seniors

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessika I. V. Buitenweg ◽  
Jaap M. J. Murre ◽  
K. Richard Ridderinkhof
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Working Memory ◽  
Executive Functioning ◽  
Cognitive Training ◽  
Functional Decline ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Blink Rate ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Working Memory Updating

AbstractAs the world’s population is aging rapidly, cognitive training is an extensively used approach to attempt improvement of age-related cognitive functioning. With increasing numbers of older adults required to remain in the workforce, it is important to be able to reliably predict future functional decline, as well as the individual advantages of cognitive training. Given the correlation between age-related decline and striatal dopaminergic function, we investigated whether eye blink rate (EBR), a non-invasive, indirect indicator of dopaminergic activity, could predict executive functioning (response inhibition, switching and working memory updating) as well as trainability of executive functioning in older adults. EBR was collected before and after a cognitive flexibility training, cognitive training without flexibility, or a mock training. EBR predicted working memory updating performance on two measures of updating, as well as trainability of working memory updating, whereas performance and trainability in inhibition and switching tasks could not be predicted by EBR. Our findings tentatively indicate that EBR permits prediction of working memory performance in older adults. To fully interpret the relationship with executive functioning, we suggest future research should assess both EBR and dopamine receptor availability among seniors.

Near- and Far-Transfer Effects of Working Memory Updating Training in Elderly Adults

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Xin ◽  
Zhou-Ren Lai ◽  
Fu. Li ◽  
Joseph H. R. Maes
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Elderly Adults ◽  
Transfer Effects ◽  
Far Transfer ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Working Memory Updating

Short-term training on working memory updating and metacognition in primary school: The effect on reading comprehension

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 641-657
Author(s):  
Caterina Artuso ◽  
Barbara Carretti ◽  
Paola Palladino
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Text Comprehension ◽  
Text Processing ◽  
Transfer Effects ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Text Structures ◽  
Working Memory Updating

This study analyzed the potential transfer effects on reading comprehension skills of two different training programs administered to 9- to 10-year-old children attending fourth grade classes. One training program was based on a working memory updating paradigm (i.e., words, digits, sentence and text updating working memory tasks). The other program was based on metacomprehension activities focused on text structures, genres, text sensitivity, and text comprehension strategies. Performance was compared pre and post training on running memory, text updating, and reading comprehension tasks. The results showed that significant gains were obtained in both text updating and reading comprehension tasks, with a far transfer effect for both types of training. Limited nearest transfer effects suggest that gains could be due to acquisition of effective strategies in both programs, with training suitable for improving written text processing; however, performance did not differ between programs.

scholarly journals Differential effects of angry faces on working memory updating in younger and older adults.

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 667-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Berger ◽  
Anne Richards ◽  
Eddy J. Davelaar
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Working Memory ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Working Memory Updating

Can working memory capacity be expanded by boosting working memory updating efficiency in older adults?

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 1134-1151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Du ◽  
Yang Ji ◽  
Tianyong Chen ◽  
Yi Tang ◽  
Buxin Han
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Working Memory ◽  
Working Memory Capacity ◽  
Memory Capacity ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Working Memory Updating

scholarly journals Nearest transfer effects of working memory training: A comparison of two programs focused on working memory updating

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. e0211321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocío Linares ◽  
Erika Borella ◽  
Mª Teresa Lechuga ◽  
Barbara Carretti ◽  
Santiago Pelegrina
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Working Memory Training ◽  
Memory Training ◽  
Transfer Effects ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Working Memory Updating

scholarly journals When Emotions Matter: Focusing on Emotion Improves Working Memory Updating in Older Adults

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Berger ◽  
Anne Richards ◽  
Eddy J. Davelaar
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Working Memory ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Working Memory Updating

scholarly journals Are training and transfer effects of working memory updating training modulated by achievement motivation?

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Zhao ◽  
Yiwenjie Xu ◽  
Junjun Fu ◽  
Joseph H. R. Maes
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Transfer Effects ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Working Memory Updating

scholarly journals Transfer of working memory training to the inhibitory control of auditory distraction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Kattner
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Executive Functions ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Fluid Intelligence ◽  
Working Memory Training ◽  
Memory Training ◽  
Transfer Effects ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Working Memory Updating ◽  
Back Task

AbstractExtended working memory training with the dual n-back task has been shown to improve performance on various untrained cognitive tasks, but previous findings were inconsistent with regard to the extent of such transfer. The dual n-back training task addresses multiple components of working memory as sequential information from two different stimulus modalities needs to be simultaneously encoded, maintained, continuously monitored and updated in working memory while irrelevant information needs to be inhibited. However, it is unclear which executive functions account for the observed transfer effects. In this study, the degree of inhibitory control required during training was manipulated by comparing two versions of the dual n-back task in which participants are asked to either respond or withhold a response on the less frequent trials when an item was identical to an item n trials back. Eight 80-min sessions of training with adaptive versions of both n-back tasks were shown to improve working memory updating. Moreover, in contrast to the standard n-back task, training on the inhibitory n-back task was found to reduce the interference in working memory produced by task-irrelevant speech. This result suggests that enhanced demand for inhibitory control during training enables transfer to the inhibition of distractor interference, whereas the standard n-back task primarily affects working memory updating. The training effects did not transfer to the inhibition of spatially incompatible responses in a Simon task, and it yielded no far transfer effects to untrained executive functions or measures of fluid intelligence.

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