TY - GEN
T1 - A Basic Study on Capacity and Reaction Time of Visual Working Memory for Elderly Memory Training
AU - Guo, Ting
AU - Ren, Yanna
AU - Yu, Yinghua
AU - Yu, Yiyang
AU - Hasegawa, Yuuki
AU - Wu, Qiong
AU - Yang, Jiajia
AU - Takahashi, Satoshi
AU - Ejima, Yoshimichi
AU - Wu, Jinglong
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE (JSPS) KAKENHI grant numbers 16K18052, 17K18855, 18H05009, 18K12149, 18K15339, and 18H01411 and a Grant-in-Sid for Strategic Research Promotion from Okayama University, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31800932), the Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China (18XJC190003), and the Doctor Scientific Research Staring Foundation of Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - Working memory refers to the cognitive capacity to temporally store and manipulate sensory information from multiple sensory domains. Recent research shown that aging effect had extensive influence on working memory; however, which aspect of cognitive function leads to the aging effect is still unclear. To investigate the influences of process speed on aging effect, the present study used a modified visual spatial task to evaluate the capacity of working memory with older and younger subjects, and we compare the performance of two different age group with same experimental parameters. Our results showed that the performance of older subjects in visual spatial task were increased with the present time of stimulus. Remarkably, the older subjects' item capacity of working memory could approaching with younger subjects in 500ms presentation condition. These results suggested that aging effect in visual spatial task was probably caused by processing speed and the tempo of trails, thus opening a wide range of applications for the training method about working memory for older subjects to anti-aging effect on cognitive domain.
AB - Working memory refers to the cognitive capacity to temporally store and manipulate sensory information from multiple sensory domains. Recent research shown that aging effect had extensive influence on working memory; however, which aspect of cognitive function leads to the aging effect is still unclear. To investigate the influences of process speed on aging effect, the present study used a modified visual spatial task to evaluate the capacity of working memory with older and younger subjects, and we compare the performance of two different age group with same experimental parameters. Our results showed that the performance of older subjects in visual spatial task were increased with the present time of stimulus. Remarkably, the older subjects' item capacity of working memory could approaching with younger subjects in 500ms presentation condition. These results suggested that aging effect in visual spatial task was probably caused by processing speed and the tempo of trails, thus opening a wide range of applications for the training method about working memory for older subjects to anti-aging effect on cognitive domain.
KW - aging effect
KW - cognitive ability
KW - cognitive impairments
KW - working memory
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U2 - 10.1109/ICMA.2019.8816525
DO - 10.1109/ICMA.2019.8816525
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85072383955
T3 - Proceedings of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2019
SP - 600
EP - 604
BT - Proceedings of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 16th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2019
Y2 - 4 August 2019 through 7 August 2019
ER -