This study investigated age-related differences in intentional forgetting (IF) of prospective memory (memory for actions to be performed in the future) in young (19-30 years) and late-midlife adults (LMA; 57-75 years). Prospective memory (PM) performance was examined by using the Virtual Week (VW) Task. An IF procedure was embedded into the VW task and the participants were instructed to forget some of the PM tasks that they were to remember and execute later on a virtual day. The study compared performances of the young and the LMA participants in the context of event- or time-based regular and irregular tasks. The results confirmed previous findings in showing that LMA participants exhibited worse PM than younger participants in lab-based tasks. In addition, although PM and IF performances separately have been shown to be affected by cognitive aging, larger age-related differences were not found in PM performance under IF conditions.

中文翻译：

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预期记忆有意遗忘的年龄相关差异。

本研究调查了年轻人（19-30 岁）和中年晚期成人（LMA；57-75 岁）的前瞻记忆（对将来要执行的行为的记忆）的有意遗忘 (IF) 与年龄相关的差异。使用虚拟周 (VW) 任务检查了预期内存 (PM) 性能。一个 IF 程序被嵌入到 VW 任务中，参与者被指示忘记一些他们要记住的 PM 任务，并在虚拟日稍后执行。该研究比较了年轻人和 LMA 参与者在基于事件或时间的规则和不规则任务的背景下的表现。结果证实了之前的发现，即 LMA 参与者在基于实验室的任务中表现出比年轻参与者更差的 PM。此外，