Examining the locus of age effects on complex span tasks |
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Authors: | McCabe Jennifer Hartman Marilyn |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599-3270, USA. jmccabe@email.unc.edu |
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Abstract: | To investigate the locus of age effects on complex span tasks, the authors evaluated the contributions of working memory functions and processing speed. Age differences were found in measures of storage capacity, language processing speed, and lower level speed. Statistically controlling for each of these in hierarchical regressions substantially reduced, but did not eliminate, the complex span age effect. Accounting for lower level speed and storage, however, removed essentially the entire age effect, suggesting that both functions play important and independent roles. Additional evidence for the role of storage capacity was the absence of complex span age differences with span size calibrated to individual word span performance. Explanations for age differences based on inhibition and concurrent task performamce were not supported. |
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