A list of bad-news headlines wrapped up with an Atlantic article headlined “Why are young people everywhere so unhappy?”

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

If you're interested in hearing more about this project,
@mattdjohnston.bsky.social will be presenting the poster at the Age & Cognition conference next week in Pavia, Italy. Come meet us there to chat statistical learning!

And it's over already! A big thanks to everyone who came today, who presented their work, and to our fab organiser, Lizzie Bradford, for hosting us.

If you'd like to join SCAN, send a message or sign up via the link in the bio. As you can see, we're a friendly bunch!

For our first post, why not announce our next meeting?
Our next (members) meeting will be at Scotland's first University, St Andrews, on Friday 2nd May! 🤩 Members who are interested in attending/presenting, check your inbox. Not a member yet? Visit our website to sign up: t.co/Z6zghQf8nc

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

How did it go?

I've found an alternative use for outdated conference posters: training your cats! In this case, getting our older girl used to the new kitten, Banjo. The irony of my research with barriers being used as a barrier is not lost on me :-).

Our @heriotwattuni.bsky.social office is feeling pretty festive at the moment, largely due to @rach-hulme.bsky.social's excellent Christmas decorations 🎄

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...

Collaborative learning in older age and the role of familiarity: evidence from the map task As we age, learning new knowledge and skills becomes more difficult due to age-related changes to cognition. Learning collaboratively could counteract these changes, and perhaps more so when workin...

An excellent start to the week: our latest paper on collaborative learning has been published! In the study, we used the Map Task to assess younger and older adults' task performance and short- and long-term recall of the routes they described and followed....🧵

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Kelly Wolfe, PhD Hello,

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!).

Hello! This is my first post on BlueSky. For those who don't yet know me, my name is Kelly Wolfe. I am a cognitive Psychologist and my research focuses on how healthy ageing affects cognitive processes, more specifically on collaborative learning in older age.

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!