Rothen, Nicolas; Meier, Beat (27 March 2017). Time-of-day affects prospective memory differently in younger and older adults (Unpublished). In: 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists - Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). Dresden, Germany. 26.03.-29.03.2017.
The goal of this study was to investigate the impact of circadian arousal on prospective memory performance as a function of age. We tested a younger (18–34 years) and an older group (56–95 years) of participants on- and off-peak with regard to their circadian arousal patterns in a computer-based laboratory experiment. For the prospective memory task, participants had to press a particular key whenever specific target words appeared in an ongoing concreteness-judgment task. The results showed that prospective memory performance was better on- than off-peak in younger but not older participants. Younger participants consistently outperformed older participants in all conditions. We conclude that prospective remembering underlies time-of-day effects which most likely reflect controlled processes.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Psychological and Behavioral Health |
UniBE Contributor: |
Rothen, Nicolas, Meier, Beat |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Nicolas Rothen |
Date Deposited: |
10 Aug 2017 16:31 |
Last Modified: |
29 Mar 2023 23:35 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/98991 |
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