Research article summary (published 30 Aug 2009):

An Internet study of prospective memory across adulthood.

Full Abstract

In an Internet study, 73,018 18-79-year-olds were asked to "remember to click the smiley face when it appears." A smiley face was present/absent at encoding, and participants were told to expect it "at the end of the test"/"later in the test." In all 4 conditions, the smiley face occurred after 20 min of retrospective memory tests. Prospective remembering benefited at all ages from both prior target exposure and temporal uncertainty; moreover, it resembled working memory in its linear decline from young adulthood. The study demonstrates the power of Internet methodology to reveal age-related deficits in a single-trial prospective memory task outside the laboratory. (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved.

Author information

Author/s: Logie, Robert H (RH); Maylor, Elizabeth A (EA);

Affiliation: Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Psychology and aging (Psychol Aging), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Sep; vol 24 (issue 3) : pp 767-74

Dates: Created 2009/09/10; Completed 2009/10/13;

PMID: 19739935, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 10/13/2009, IMS Date: )

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Adolescent Adult Aged Aging - psychology Attention Color Perception Cues Female Humans Intention Internet

Male Memory, Short-Term Middle Aged Pattern Recognition, Visual Prospective Studies Psychomotor Performance Reference Values Semantics Software Verbal Learning Young Adult

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