Everyday cognition in older adulthood: Mechanisms contributing to the age-prospective memory paradox.

老年人的日常认知：导致年龄预期记忆悖论的机制。

• 批准号: DP0984844
• 负责人: Prof Julie Henry
• 金额: $ 22.9万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2011-04-30 至 2015-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0984844
• 关键词: Everyday; cognition; older; adulthood; Mechanisms

Australia is faced with an ageing population, and thus an increasingly important goal is ageing well and ageing productively. The proposed research will clarify why older adults perform extremely well on prospective memory (PM) tasks based in everyday environments, but very poorly on PM tasks that take place in the controlled situation of the laboratory. Advancing our understanding of why this 'paradoxical' pattern of age effects occurs will help clarify how other aspects of everyday cognition in older adulthood may be optimised, and consequently take an important step in improving the lives of older adults. The results will also inform development of rehabilitation strategies for clinical groups who present with PM difficulties.

澳大利亚面临着人口老龄化问题，因此，一个日益重要的目标是健康老龄化和富有成效的老龄化。 这项拟议中的研究将阐明为什么老年人在日常环境中的前瞻性记忆（PM）任务中表现得非常好，但在实验室受控情况下的PM任务中表现得非常差。推进我们对为什么会发生这种“自相矛盾”的年龄效应模式的理解，将有助于澄清老年人日常认知的其他方面如何得到优化，从而在改善老年人生活方面迈出重要一步。研究结果还将为PM困难的临床群体制定康复策略提供信息。