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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience of Aging
  • Human Memory

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  • The regularity effect, influencing prospective memory (PM) performance, has unclear cognitive underpinnings and unknown impacts across the lifespan.
  • Previous research has not examined the regularity effect in PM from a lifespan perspective, particularly concerning aging.
  • This study pioneers the investigation of the regularity effect in PM across young, intermediate, and older adult age groups.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the regularity effect in prospective memory (PM) across three age groups: young (18-30), intermediate (40-55), and older adults (65-80).
  • To investigate the role of executive functions (planning, inhibition, shifting, binding), short-term memory, and episodic memory in PM performance related to regularity and age.
  • To determine how task regularity (regular vs. irregular activities) influences PM performance and associated cognitive processes in different age groups.

Main Methods:

  • A mixed-design ANOVA was employed to analyze prospective memory (PM) performance.
  • Participants completed a task adapted from the Virtual Week, manipulating activity regularity (regular repeated vs. irregular non-repeated activities).
  • Cognitive functions assessed included executive functions (planning, inhibition, shifting, binding), short-term memory, and retrospective episodic memory.

Main Results:

  • A significant main effect of task regularity and an age-by-regularity interaction were observed.
  • Older adults showed lower PM performance than younger adults for irregular activities, but not for regular activities.
  • All participants recalled more regular activities than irregular ones; recalling regular activities primarily involved planning for intermediate and older adults, while irregular activities engaged planning, inhibition, short-term memory, binding, and retrospective episodic memory.

Conclusions:

  • Planning capacities are crucial for prospective memory (PM) performance in older adults.
  • The 'age-PM-paradox' may be mitigated by using familiar contexts, such as daily living activities, in experimental designs.
  • The findings have potential clinical implications for understanding and supporting memory functions in aging populations.