DECOMPOSING ADULT AGE-DIFFERENCES IN WORKING MEMORY

被引：1048

作者：

SALTHOUSE, TA

BABCOCK, RL

机构：

[1] School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA

来源：

DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY | 1991年 / 27卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1037/0012-1649.27.5.763

中图分类号：

B844 [发展心理学（人类心理学）];

学科分类号：

040202 ;

摘要：

Two studies, involving a total of 460 adults between 18 and 87 years of age, were conducted to determine which of several hypothesized processing components was most responsible for age-related declines in working memory functioning. Significant negative correlations between age and measures of working memory (i.e., from -.39 to -.52) were found in both studies, and these relations were substantially attenuated by partialing measures hypothesized to reflect storage capacity, processing efficiency, coordination effectiveness, and simple comparison speed. Because the greatest attenuation of the age relations occurred with measures of simple processing speed, it was suggested that many of the age differences in working memory may be mediated by age-related reductions in the speed of executing elementary operations.

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页码：763 / 776

页数：14

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