A Cognitive Interaction Between Executive Attention and Working Memory using Single and Dual Task Paradigm for Aging Effect Analysis

The ability to preserve and manipulate incoming information, including working memory and executive attention, often deteriorates in healthy older individuals. Several studies have been conducted on different age groups to analyze working memory and executive control by varying different load conditions in the tasks. The study's overarching goal is to learn more about the interactions between working memory maintenance and executive attention in healthy young and older adults, using single-task and dual-task paradigms. The current study uses flanker task for executive attention and the delayed matching to sample task for working memory. These tasks are evaluated on young, middle-aged, and elderly. Weak evidence is shown by the results, which show that working memory load has no impact on how well a task involves resolving conflicts. However, conflict resolution in WM maintenance is where the consequences of ageing are most noticeable.