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

澳大利亚面临着人口老龄化，因此一个日益重要的目标是充分老龄化和富有成效地老龄化。这项拟议的研究将阐明为什么老年人在基于日常环境的前瞻记忆(PM)任务上表现得非常好，但在实验室受控情况下进行的PM任务表现很差。让我们更好地理解为什么会出现这种“矛盾”的年龄效应模式，这将有助于阐明老年人日常认知的其他方面是如何优化的，从而在改善老年人生活方面迈出重要的一步。这一结果还将为临床上出现PM困难的群体制定康复策略提供参考。

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.