Subjective ordering, working memory, and aging.
Cognitive decline in aging was studied by presenting four tasks involving short-term memory to young and old adults: digit span forward, missing scan, randomization span, and randomization span visual. Results showed that performance declined significantly with age in the latter two tasks, which require subjective ordering of a sequence of responses, and not in the first two tasks, which involve reproduction of a presented sequence and searching and comparison processes.
Wiegersma
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University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Meertse
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests