{
  "creator": [
    "van den Noort, Maurits",
    "Haverkort, Marco",
    "Bosch, Peggy",
    "Hugdahl, Kenneth"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2006-05-30"
  ],
  "description": [
    "In this study, the new standard computerized version of the reading span  test was used to investigate the development of verbal working memory  over age. A significant higher reading span and faster reaction times  were expected for the young adults compared to the old adults, based on  the processing resource theory (Just & Carpenter, 1992) and the  theory of cognitive aging (Salthouse, 1994, 1996), and this hypothesis  was confirmed. The new methodology made it possible to test whether  there was an age-related increase in intrusion errors, which could be  expected based on the inhibition theory of cognitive aging (Hasher &  Zacks, 1988). The results showed that older adults made more intrusion  errors than young adults thereby confirming the inhibition theory.  Finally, the analysis of the memory-pattern showed a clear  recency-effect for the young-, but not for the old adults.  Interestingly, this has never been reported in literature before.  Although more research is needed before any firm conclusions can be  drawn, this decline in recency-effect shows that there are larger  age-related effects in short term memory span than was expected on the  basis of aging theories so far."
  ],
  "format": [
    "text/html"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/321",
    "10.5964/ejop.v2i2.321"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/321/321.html"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Europe’s Journal of Psychology; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2006)",
    "1841-0413"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "Reading span test",
    "methodology",
    "working memory",
    "aging Introduction"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Is there a decline in verbal working memory over age?"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}