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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Gerontology

Background:

  • Objective memory performance often declines with age, but self-reported memory failures do not correlate with age.
  • Self-reported attention failures consistently decrease with advancing age.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between age, self-reported attention failures, and self-reported memory problems.
  • To explore whether attention failures mask age-related increases in perceived memory problems.

Main Methods:

  • Two independent samples were surveyed regarding self-reported attention and memory problems.
  • Data spanned individuals across eight decades of age.
  • Statistical analyses examined correlations between age, attention lapses, and memory failures, including residual analyses.

Main Results:

  • Attention failures significantly decreased with age.
  • Self-reported memory problems did not significantly differ across age groups initially.
  • When controlling for attention lapses, the association between memory failures and age became significantly positive.
  • Controlling for memory failures had a modest effect on the attention lapses-age correlation.

Conclusions:

  • Age-related awareness of memory failures may be masked by decreasing attention failures.
  • Attention lapses are closely related to memory problems.
  • Assessing attention failures is crucial for a comprehensive evaluation of memory problems in aging individuals.