Ricardo Eiraldi, Rachel Comly, Jessica Goldstein, Muniya S Khanna, Barry L McCurdy, Laura E Rutherford, Kathryn Henson, Patrick Bevenour, Jennifer Francisco, Abbas F Jawad
Development of an Online Training Platform and Implementation Strategy for School-Based Mental Health Professionals in Rural Elementary Schools: A Mixed-Methods Study
School mental health
two studies involving total 460 adults 18 87 years age conducted determine several hypothesized processing components responsible agerelated declines working memory functioning significant negative correlations age measures working memory ie 39 52 found studies relations substantially attenuated partialing measures hypothesized reflect storage capacity processing efficiency coordination effectiveness simple comparison speed greatest attenuation age relations occurred measures simple processing speed suggested many age differences working memory may mediated agerelated reductions speed executing elementary operations working memory generally defined preservation information simultaneously processing information distinguished forms memory assumption reflects processing storage implies plays important role many cognitive tasks eg baddeley 1986 carpenter 1989 salthouse 1990 illustration hypothesized functioning working memory one cognitive task mental arithmetic presented figure 1 left column figure indicates operations performed right column represents intermediate products must temporarily stored carrying operations figure useful graphically illustrates importance complexity working memory clear example effective storage information essential order successful performance certain cognitive tasks figure 1 also suggests may fruitful think working memory single discrete structure rather dynamic interchange among three conceptually distinct aspects componentsprocessing efficiency storage capacity coordination effectiveness processing represented series operations left column storage represented entries right column coordination assumed correspond sequencing operations arrows portraying exchange information processing storage primary purpose article investigate contribution three hypothesized components agerelated differences measures working memory components hypothesized important source adult age differences one researchers definitive conclusions possible currently available evidence weak inconsistent illustrate