Aging and the use of perceptual and temporal information in source memory tasks

Article Abstract:

A study of the effects of aging on memory performance shows that older adults use information about perceptual and temporal source characteristics in making source judgements. The effectiveness of such information is better when multiple distinctive features are given. Compared to younger adults, older ones show a deficit in source memory if a single distinctive characteristic is provided. Results suggest that older people can perform better in source memory tasks, when sources have multiple distinctive characteristics.

Psychological aspects, Age groups, Ability, Influence of age on

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Aging and interference: evidence from indirect memory tests

Article Abstract:

Adults can readily predict a stimulus as a target and not a distractor if they are told of the targets beforehand. This ability, known as priming, is functional in both younger and older adults. Meanwhile, young adults were more likely to perform well than older adults on tests which required them to predict a stimulus given a context with many distractors. The differences in performance across age groups may be due to a reduction in the efficiency of selection mechanisms for memory.

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The relation between source memory and episodic memory: comment on Siedlecki et al. (2005)

Article Abstract:

The study argues that referring source memory as a construct distinct from episodic memory is not meaningful and to suggest the source and episodic memory are distinct concepts would confound tasks with theoretical constructs. Source memory tasks are designed to investigate episodic memory.

Science & research

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