Age and individual differences in prospective memory during a "virtual week": The roles of working memory, vigilance, task regularity, and cue focality

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 595-605

  Rose, Nathan S ^a   Rendell, Peter G ^b   McDaniel, Mark A ^a   Aberle, Ingo ^c   Kliegel, Matthias ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Prospective memory; Vigilance; Virtual Week; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957259394     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019771     Document Type: Article

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