I've found an alternative use for outdated conference posters: training your cats!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 🎄

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 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!).