Attentional disregulation: A benefit for implicit memory.
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Psychology and Aging
- Vol. 21 (4), 826-830
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.21.4.826
Abstract
The authors investigated the effect of age and time of testing on the ability to control attention and addressed the possibility that older adults' susceptibility to distraction may sometimes facilitate performance on a later cognitive task. Using a modification of a G. Rees, C. Russell, C. D. Frith, and J. Driver (1999) procedure, the authors asked the participants to make same or different judgments on line drawings superimposed with task-irrelevant letter strings. Memory for the distractors was subsequently tested with an implicit memory task. Both older and young adults demonstrated greater memory for distractors at nonoptimal times of day than at optimal times of day; however, older adults showed considerably better memory for the distractors than did young adults.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institute on Aging (R37 AGO 4306)
- National Sciences and Engineering Research Counci
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