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Time-of-day affects prospective memory differently in younger and older adults.
Neuropsychology, Development, and Cognition. Section B, Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition 2017 November
The goal of this study was to investigate the impact of circadian arousal on prospective memory performance as a function of age. We tested a younger (18-34 years) and an older group (56-95 years) of participants on- and off-peak with regard to their circadian arousal patterns in a computer-based laboratory experiment. For the prospective memory task, participants had to press a particular key whenever specific target words appeared in an ongoing concreteness-judgment task. The results showed that prospective memory performance was better on- than off-peak in younger but not older participants. Younger participants consistently outperformed older participants in all conditions. We conclude that prospective remembering underlies time-of-day effects which most likely reflect controlled processes.
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