Quantitative analysis on literature of working memory study on the elderly in China

Abstract

Objective To show the systems and problems in working memory study on the elderly in China.Methods Makes a quantitative analysis on 31 papers of study on working memory of the elderly in China.Results There was little amount of studies in this field.Most studies concentrated on the elderly over 60 years.The researches contained the effect of working memory on cognitive aging,the study on the mechanism of working memory aging and the intervention study for the elderly.Conclusions The study of working memory on the elderly in China gets some achievements.Inter-Disciplinary researches and this kind of training research will be the trend of this field in China.