2020
Superior short-term memory in APOE ε2 carriers across the age range
Zokaei N, Board A, Slavkova E, Mackay C, Nobre A, Husain M. Superior short-term memory in APOE ε2 carriers across the age range. Behavioural Brain Research 2020, 397: 112918. PMID: 32961217, PMCID: PMC7732594, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112918.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsShort-term memoryMemory advantageAssociated with individual differencesShort-term memory taskSignificant memory advantageAlzheimer's diseaseMemory performanceIndividual differencesTask difficultyAD-related pathologyAge rangeCognitive healthE3/E3 carriersSensitive to subtle changesAt-risk cohortElderly adultsApolipoprotein E4 alleleMemoryCognitionCohort of individualsMiddle-agedDevelopment of ADE4 alleleIndividualsPhenotypic effects
2014
Age Group and Individual Differences in Attentional Orienting Dissociate Neural Mechanisms of Encoding and Maintenance in Visual STM
Shimi A, Kuo B, Astle D, Nobre A, Scerif G. Age Group and Individual Differences in Attentional Orienting Dissociate Neural Mechanisms of Encoding and Maintenance in Visual STM. Journal Of Cognitive Neuroscience 2014, 26: 864-877. PMID: 24236697, DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00526.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVisual STMAttention negativityNeural markersMaintenance of representationsMechanisms of encodingIndividual differencesAttention positivityVisual searchNeural circuitsProspective orientationAge groupsChildrenEncodingIncome perceptionSpatial orientationAdultsN2pcNegativelyCuesPerceptuallyDevelopmentalContext of orientationAttentionItemsEEG
2012
Attentional control constrains visual short-term memory: Insights from developmental and individual differences
Astle D, Nobre A, Scerif G. Attentional control constrains visual short-term memory: Insights from developmental and individual differences. Quarterly Journal Of Experimental Psychology 2012, 65: 277-294. PMID: 20680889, PMCID: PMC4152725, DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2010.492622.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAttentional controlVisual short-term memory capacityVisual short-term memoryShort-term memory capacityVisual short-termWorking memory spanShort-term representationsAbsence of cuesCueing benefitsProbe itemMemory spanMnemonic representationsControl attentionOrienting attentionCue typesIndividual differencesShort-term memoryExperiment 1Experiment 2Mnemonic contentMemory capacityItem locationsCuesOrientation cuesMemory