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17-03-2020 | Original Article

Memory for item–location bindings is enhanced in older adults with appetitive motivationally laden pictures

Auteurs: Caterina Padulo, Nicola Mammarella, Alfredo Brancucci, Beth Fairfield

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 3/2021

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Abstract

Both the selection and consumption of food are biologically necessary for survival. Consequently, individuals may consider food as a primary and biologically relevant stimulus. In addition, recent findings support specific patterns of food preference during the lifespan development. Indeed, the preference for sweet taste largely observed in newborns and children seems to decline in young adults and then re-emerge again in older adults. This motivational preference for sweet food in older adults may be potentially useful in the cognitive domain since many studies have found that motivationally or emotionally laden information is more likely to be detected, stored in memory and retrieved better than neutral information. To address this issue, we designed an item–location binding task with sweet food, savory food and object pictures, and asked young and older adults to maintain information in working memory and respond based on memory for either individual features or feature combination (i.e., identification, location, or combined identification + location information). Results evidenced a significant enhancement of older adults’ performance in the binding of motivationally relevant stimuli and their location, evidencing the potential usefulness of motivationally laden stimuli in promoting more effective binding processes and probably, more general working memory processes.
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Titel
Memory for item–location bindings is enhanced in older adults with appetitive motivationally laden pictures
Auteurs
Caterina Padulo
Nicola Mammarella
Alfredo Brancucci
Beth Fairfield
Publicatiedatum
17-03-2020
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 3/2021
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01312-5