Age-related changes in working memory and the ability to ignore distraction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 6515-6518

  McNab, Fiona ^a   Zeidman, Peter ^b   Rutledge, Robb B ^b   Smittenaar, Peter ^b   Brown, Harriet R ^c   Adams, Rick A ^b   Dolan, Raymond J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Distraction; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMARTPHONE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VIDEO GAME;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84929440754     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1504162112     Document Type: Article

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