Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy.
Neuropsychol Rehabil. 2013;23(3):416-28. doi: 10.1080/09602011.2013.775065. Epub 2013 Mar 1.
The aim of the present study was to examine age-related differences between young, young-old and old-old adults in an affective version of the classical Working Memory Operation Span Test. The affective version of the Working Memory Operation Span Test included neutral words (as in the classical version) as well as negative and positive ones. Results showed that while young adults performed better than the young-old and old-old with neutral words, age-related differences between young and young-old with positive words were no longer significant, and age-related differences were nullified with negative ones. Altogether, results indicate that emotional words can reduce age-related decline when maintenance and manipulation of information in working memory in older adults are required.
本研究旨在考察在经典工作记忆操作-span 测试的情感版本中，年轻、年轻老年和老年老年人之间的年龄相关差异。工作记忆操作-span 测试的情感版本包括中性词（与经典版本相同）以及负性词和正性词。结果表明，尽管年轻人在中性词上的表现优于年轻老年人和老年老年人，但在积极词上，年轻人和年轻老年人之间的年龄相关差异不再显著，而在消极词上，年龄相关差异则消失了。总的来说，结果表明，在需要老年人在工作记忆中维持和操作信息时，情绪词可以减少与年龄相关的衰退。
