Article

The aim of the present study was to examine age-related differences between
young, young-old and old-old adults in an affective version of the classical
Working Memory Operation Span Test. The affective version of the Working Memory
Operation Span Test included neutral words (as in the classical version) as well
as negative and positive ones. Results showed that while young adults performed
better than the young-old and old-old with neutral words, age-related differences
between young and young-old with positive words were no longer significant, and
age-related differences were nullified with negative ones. Altogether, results
indicate that emotional words can reduce age-related decline when maintenance and
manipulation of information in working memory in older adults are required.

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