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Myriam C Sander1, Ulman Lindenberger, Markus Werkle-Bergner

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Working memory performance involves feature binding and top-down control. These processes change across the lifespan, with distinct developmental and aging trajectories impacting visual working memory (WM) in children, adults, and older adults.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Aging Research

Background:

  • Working memory (WM) performance is influenced by both low-level feature binding and top-down control mechanisms.
  • These processes are supported by distinct neural networks involving posterior and frontal brain regions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the lifespan trajectories of feature binding and top-down control in visual working memory.
  • To elucidate how age-related changes in these cognitive processes impact WM performance from childhood to old age.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review spanning childhood to old age.
  • Analysis of behavioral neuroscience and cognitive psychology data, including own lab results.
  • Comparative analysis of visual WM performance across different age groups (children, younger adults, older adults).

Main Results:

  • Top-down control matures in young adulthood and declines with age; binding processes mature in childhood but decline in older adults.
  • Age-differential trajectories of posterior and frontal brain regions underlie these changes.
  • Relative contributions of binding and control to visual WM performance shift across the lifespan.

Conclusions:

  • Visual WM performance is best understood through an integrated lifespan model of feature binding and top-down control.
  • Understanding these lifespan changes advances general cognition research.
  • This integrated approach bridges developmental and aging research in cognitive psychology.