The influence of schooling on working memory performance in elderlyindividuals without cognitive decline

摘要

Over recent decades, research on cognition has been developed rapidly toward better understanding the cognitive changes that usually occur during normal aging. There is evidence that elderly individuals have worse working memory performance than young adults. However, the effect of education on this cognitive function remains unclear.ObjectivesTo analyze the performance of healthy elderly subjects on working memory tasks and to verify the influence of educational level on this performance.