Accounting for age-related differences in working memory using the feature model
Ian Neath, Aimée M. Surprenant · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2007
This chapter offers a potential solution by pointing to evidence indicating that word length effects even for forward recall might be unreliable and prone to alternative encoding strategies. It refers to a range of formal models of serial recall and demonstrates how the authors' own feature-based model may account for a range of phenomena associated with verbal serial recall tasks as well as accounting for how these phenomena may differ between younger and older participants. The effects of aging on cognition are extremely complex and it seems likely that age-related differences are due to multiple interactions among factors.