You did not, exciting! I'm looking forward to reading it.

How did it go?

54% of respondents think Trump will do a good job, and only 48% think that the changes he brings will for the better. Words like most/majority mean very little without statistics, and those indicate that these % are similar to the percentage of folks voting for Trump in the election. Not a surprise.

This study was conducted by fellow first author @cjcrompton.bsky.social as part of her PhD, with Prof Sarah MacPherson and @mariawolters.bsky.social. Also included in this research is @paul-hoffman.bsky.social, who contributed to the write-up and revisions of this paper.

Overall, we found that older & younger adults perform similarly on the Map task in terms of accuracy and short-term recall, but differ in long-term recall. In addition, learning roles affect age groups differently, with the more passive “follower” role resulting in poorer memory for older adults.

And lastly, our analysis showed that younger & older adults recalled the route they had described with similar accuracy at all recall points. However, older adults recalled the route less accurately when they had followed the route (at all 3 recall points).

We also found no age differences in immediate or 1-hour recall of the routes, but younger adults did recall more after 7 days than older adults did. Again, recall at these 3 time points was unaffected by how well participants knew their learning partners...

Our results showed that both younger and older adults became quicker over time in describing and following routes, regardless of the familiarity between them and their learning partners. Next, we asked participants to recall these routes at 3 different times...

Forty-eight participants (younger and older) completed the Map Task with a familiar and unfamiliar partner, taking turns in describing and following routes. The Map Task hadn't been used in col learning research until that point, and is a ecologically valid measure of cooperation...

I am working on several active projects at the moment, which include: statistical learning in older age, an online collaborative learning task, and measuring older adults' trust in social robots. Interested? Do contact me on here or visit my website for more info: www.wolfekelly.com

I am interested in how learning together could aid learning in older age, and offset any (natural) declines in cognitive abilities in healthy ageing. My most recent project looked at how we could use social robots for this (see a photo of our data collection team!).

If anything, they're usually more optimistic and happy than us young'uns!

Hi Angela, could I be added, please? My main research area is cognitive ageing, and I work at Heriot-Watt University. Thanks!