Aging and guided visual search: the role of visual working memory

Neuropsychology, Development, and Cognition. Section B, Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition
Sowon Hahn, Daniel R Buttaccio

Abstract

In the present study, we examined age-related differences in utilizing learned associations to guide visual search. Participants viewed an object cue that was associated with 1 or 2 target colors, followed by a search array. Older adults showed slower RTs, larger visual search slopes, and reduced cue-target association knowledge than did younger adults. We also found increased search RTs and higher error rates when the cue was associated with 2 colors instead of 1. However, visual search slopes did not vary with the number of associated colors. This indicates that participants could activate multiple templates simultaneously to guide the search or retrieve associative information directly from the long-term memory. Furthermore, regression analyses showed that VWMC can predict both visual search performances and cue-target association knowledge. More broadly, our results demonstrate that VWMC can modify the effects of age on cued visual search performance.

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