Learning by task repetition enhances object individuation and memorization in the elderly.

ABSTRACT: A decline in visuospatial Working Memory (vWM) is a hallmark of cognitive aging across various tasks, and facing this decline has become the target of several studies. In the current study we tested whether older adults can benefit from task repetition in order to improve their performance in a vWM task. While learning by task repetition has been shown to improve vWM performance in young adulthood, little is known on whether a similar enhancement can be achieved also by the aging population. By combining different behavioral and electrophysiological measures, we investigated whether practicing a specific task (delayed match-to-sample judgement) over four consecutive sessions could improve vWM in healthy aging, and which are the neurophysiological and cognitive mechanisms modulated by learn

SUBMITTER: Tagliabue CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7673120 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature