The development of time-based prospective memory in childhood: The role of working memory updating.

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (10) ◽  
pp. 2393-2404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Babett Voigt ◽  
Caitlin E. V. Mahy ◽  
Judi Ellis ◽  
Katharina Schnitzspahn ◽  
Ivonne Krause ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Working Memory Updating

scholarly journals Role of prefrontal cortex and the midbrain dopamine system in working memory updating

2012 ◽  
Vol 109 (49) ◽  
pp. 19900-19909 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. D'Ardenne ◽  
N. Eshel ◽  
J. Luka ◽  
A. Lenartowicz ◽  
L. E. Nystrom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Dopamine System ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Working Memory Updating ◽  
Midbrain Dopamine

scholarly journals Rethinking executive function development

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Doebel
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Executive Function ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Mental Content ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Component Processes ◽  
Working Memory Updating ◽  
General Component

Research on executive function in early childhood has flourished in recent years. Much of this work is premised on a view of executive function development as the emergence of a set of domain general component processes (e.g., working memory updating, inhibitory control, and shifting). This view has shaped how we think about relations between executive function and other aspects of development, the role of the environment in executive function development, and how best to improve executive function in children who struggle with it. However, there are conceptual and empirical reasons to doubt that executive function should be defined in this way. I argue executive function development is better understood as the emergence of skills in using control in the service of specific goals. Such goals activate and are influenced by mental content like knowledge, beliefs, norms, values, and preferences that are acquired with development and are important to consider in understanding children’s executive function performance. This account better explains empirical findings than the components view; leads to specific, testable hypotheses; and has implications for theory, measurement, and interventions.

Working-memory updating training in younger and older adults: Training and transfer effects

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tilo Strobach ◽  
Tiina Salminen ◽  
Petra Redel ◽  
Kathrin Finke ◽  
Torsten Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Working Memory ◽  
Transfer Effects ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Working Memory Updating

scholarly journals Spontaneous Eye Blinks Predict Executive Functioning in Seniors

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessika I. V. Buitenweg ◽  
Jaap M. J. Murre ◽  
K. Richard Ridderinkhof
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Working Memory ◽  
Executive Functioning ◽  
Cognitive Training ◽  
Functional Decline ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Blink Rate ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Working Memory Updating

AbstractAs the world’s population is aging rapidly, cognitive training is an extensively used approach to attempt improvement of age-related cognitive functioning. With increasing numbers of older adults required to remain in the workforce, it is important to be able to reliably predict future functional decline, as well as the individual advantages of cognitive training. Given the correlation between age-related decline and striatal dopaminergic function, we investigated whether eye blink rate (EBR), a non-invasive, indirect indicator of dopaminergic activity, could predict executive functioning (response inhibition, switching and working memory updating) as well as trainability of executive functioning in older adults. EBR was collected before and after a cognitive flexibility training, cognitive training without flexibility, or a mock training. EBR predicted working memory updating performance on two measures of updating, as well as trainability of working memory updating, whereas performance and trainability in inhibition and switching tasks could not be predicted by EBR. Our findings tentatively indicate that EBR permits prediction of working memory performance in older adults. To fully interpret the relationship with executive functioning, we suggest future research should assess both EBR and dopamine receptor availability among seniors.

Near- and Far-Transfer Effects of Working Memory Updating Training in Elderly Adults

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Xin ◽  
Zhou-Ren Lai ◽  
Fu. Li ◽  
Joseph H. R. Maes
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Elderly Adults ◽  
Transfer Effects ◽  
Far Transfer ◽  
Memory Updating ◽  
Working Memory Updating
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