Older Adults Benefit from Symmetry, but Not Semantic Availability, in Visual Working Memory

Visual working memory exhibits age effects that are amongst the largest observed in the cognitive aging literature. In this research we investigated whether or not older adults can benefit from visual symmetry and semantic availability, as young adults typically do. Visual matrix pattern tasks varie...

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Main Authors: Colin J. Hamilton, Louise A. Brown, Clelia Rossi-Arnaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02373/full