Age-related differences in an ecologically based study of route learning
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Older adults may have problems with route learning, though aging does not affect all aspects of learning routes. Research using two experiments shows that older adults may recognize landmarks as well as younger adults but they may not choose landmarks that are most relevant to identifying a route. Older adults tend not to perform as well in tasks involving temporospatial organization. There are individual differences among older adults in their ability to translate 2D models into 3D space.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1997
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Sources of priming in text re-reading: intact implicit memory for new associations in older adults and in patients with Alzheimer's disease
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Memory can be categorised in two ways, explicity memory involving retrieval, and implicit memory. Alzheimer's Disease patients have their explicit memory affected, as is shown by a study involving the performance of reading tasks by three groups of people, Alzheimer's patients, older adults and younger adults. These patients initially find reading and rereading meaningless texts to be difficult. Alzheimer's patients appear to have all priming mechanisms intact, as do older adults.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1997
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A comparison of the factor structure of processing speed for younger and older adults: testing the assumption of measurement equivalent across age groups
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Ageing is associated with slowing of behavior, and processing speed can affect cognitive measures. A survey of 105 older adults and 144 younger adults tested geometric, alphanumeric and motor speed. The results show that factor loadings and factors did not vary across age groups, while unique variances, variance-covariance matrices and interfactor correlations did vary across age groups. The results also indicate dedifferentiation as age increases.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1997
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