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A semantic strategy instruction intervention aimed at boosting young and older adults' visual working memory capacity.

Greater semantic availability (meaningfulness) within visual stimuli can positively impact visual working memory performance. Across two experiments, we investigated the effects of semantic availability and, for the first time, semantic strategy instruction on visual working memory performance. Expe...

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Published in:Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 1677 - 1696
Main Authors: Hart, Rebecca, Nicholls, Louise A. Brown
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Aug2025
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United Kingdom
Task performance
Age distribution
Randomized controlled trials
Analysis of variance
Semantics
Cognition
Adults
Old age
Data analysis
Research funding
Statistical sampling
Factorial experiment designs
Questionnaires
Probability theory
Mann Whitney U Test
Experimental design
Statistics
Neuropsychological tests
Semantic memory
Visual perception
Short-term memory
Comparative studies
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