Debate continues on whether a bilingual advantage exists with respect to executive
functioning. This report synthesized the results of 170 studies to test whether the bilingual …

Declines in the control of attention and working memory are often considered a core feature
of cognitive aging. In particular, the idea that older adults are differentially vulnerable to …

Objectives To provide a systematic review of age-related differences in n-back performance.
Method Meta-analytic data aggregation. Results Access for items stored within the focus of …

Inhibitory theory suggests that a major determinant of individual differences in cognitive
performance (including differences that are typically observed with increasing age) is the …

We are often presented with more information than we can remember, and we must
selectively focus on the most valuable information to maximize memory utility. Most tests of …

The present study tested the hypothesis that older adults show age-related deficits in
interference resolution, also referred to as inhibitory control. Although oftentimes considered …

Older adults sometimes show impaired memory for recent episodes, especially those that
are similar but not identical to existing memories. Two experiments examined if interpolated …

Explaining cognitive decline in late adulthood is a major research area. Models using
personality traits as possible influential variables are rare. This study tested assumptions …

Interference from related memories is generally considered one of the major causes of
forgetting in human memory. The most prevalent form of interference may be proactive …

Evidence from perceptually based implicit memory tasks demonstrates greater priming from
distracting information among older compared with younger adults. We examined whether …