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

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.

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

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

Is the Discrimination of Subjective Cognitive Decline from Cognitively Healthy Adulthood and Mild Cognitive Impairment Possible? A Pilot Study Utilizing the R4Alz Battery

2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 715-732
Author(s):  
Eleni Poptsi ◽  
Despina Moraitou ◽  
Emmanouil Tsardoulias ◽  
Andreas L. Symeonidisd ◽  
Magda Tsolaki
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Working Memory ◽  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Cognitive Decline ◽  
Neurocognitive Disorders ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Subjective Cognitive Decline ◽  
Working Memory Updating

Background: The early diagnosis of neurocognitive disorders before the symptoms’ onset is the ultimate goal of the scientific community. REMEDES for Alzheimer (R4Alz) is a battery, designed for assessing cognitive control abilities in people with minor and major neurocognitive disorders. Objective: To investigate whether the R4Alz battery’s tasks differentiate subjective cognitive decline (SCD) from cognitively healthy adults (CHA) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Methods: The R4Alz battery was administered to 175 Greek adults, categorized in five groups a) healthy young adults (HYA; n = 42), b) healthy middle-aged adults (HMaA; n = 33), c) healthy older adults (HOA; n = 14), d) community-dwelling older adults with SCD (n = 34), and e) people with MCI (n = 52). Results: Between the seven R4Alz subtasks, four showcased the best results for differentiating HOA from SCD: the working memory updating (WMCUT-S3), the inhibition and switching subtask (ICT/RST-S1&S2), the failure sets (FS) of the ICT/RST-S1&S2, and the cognitive flexibility subtask (ICT/RST-S3). The total score of the four R4Alz subtasks (R4AlzTot4) leads to an excellent discrimination among SCD and healthy adulthood, and to fare discrimination among SCD and MCI. Conclusion: The R4Alz battery is a novel approach regarding the neuropsychological assessment of people with SCD, since it can very well assist toward discriminating SCD from HOA. The R4Alz is able to measure decline of specific cognitive control abilities - namely of working memory updating, and complex executive functions - which seem to be the neuropsychological substrate of cognitive complaints in community dwelling adults of advancing age.

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