Relationship between episodic memory and executive functions in university students
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Executive functions play a key role in the strategic processing of episodic memory, but their interaction with this system in young adults without cognitive impairments is not yet fully understood. This study aimed to determine the contributions of five executive functions (planning, cognitive flexibility, working memory, verbal fluency, and inhibition) to the encoding, storage, and retrieval processes of episodic memory in university students. A total of 52 physiotherapy students from a Colombian university participated. The results show that cognitive flexibility and verbal fluency are significantly related to these processes. These findings provide evidence of the role of executive functions in the episodic memory performance of young adults and suggest that stimulating them could support both
learning and intervention processes in educational and clinical settings.
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