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Jessica K. Bone; Daisy Fancourt; Jill K. Sonke; Feifei Bu – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
There is growing evidence for the impact of arts engagement on later life cognition. However, confounding by socioeconomic factors may have led to an overestimation of this association. We analyzed data from 4,344 older adults in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We measured participatory (e.g. painting, making music, crafts) and receptive (e.g.…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Short Term Memory, Handicrafts, Creative Activities
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Acheson, Daniel J.; Postle, Bradley R.; MacDonald, Maryellen C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Although phonological representations have been a primary focus of verbal working memory research, lexical-semantic manipulations also influence performance. In the present study, the authors investigated whether a classic phenomenon in verbal working memory, the phonological similarity effect (PSE), is modulated by a lexical-semantic variable,…
Descriptors: Phonology, Semantics, Word Lists, Interaction