Working memory in healthy ageing

Thesis

This thesis is concerned with the age-related changes in working memory (WM), and the inter-individual differences in cognitive and neural mechanisms that correspond to healthy versus poor ageing of WM function. The first half of this thesis focusses on the age-related decline in WM and whether preserved top-down attentional control could mitigate such deficits. In Chapter 2, I present a functional MRI study showing that older adults reliably recruit brain networks that subserve cognitive ...

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Authors: Mok, R

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: emotion; individual differences; functional magnetic resonance imaging; ageing; neuroscience; Working memory; magnetoencephalography; psychology; cognition
• Subjects: emotion; individual differences; ageing; neuroscience; Working memory; psychology; cognition