Characteristics of associative learning in younger and older adults: evidence from an episodic priming paradigm

Article Abstract:

Older adults show cognitive deficits in the overall speed of encoding associative information. Two studies, comparing older and younger adults on speed-related naming task performance, show that older adults have lesser episodic priming ability than younger adults. While younger adults show a flair for recalling consistently paired words, older adults show little benefit for consistently paired words. Both groups recall massed repeated words better at immediate test, but show greater recall for spaced repeated words at delayed test.

Age groups, Cognition in old age, Old age cognition, Priming (Psychology), Paired-association learning, Paired associate learning

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Lexical competition and phonological encoding in young and older speakers

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Several pictures were presented to young and older adults to analyze the influence of name agreement and name frequency by multiple regression. Results showed that both name agreement and name frequency are significant predictors of picture naming performance in young and older adults and older adults are more strongly influenced by name agreement than are younger adults.

Aged, Elderly, Onomasiology, Encoding (Memory)

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Factors influencing word naming in younger and older adults

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Issues concerning a comparative study of three factors proven to have an impact on word naming are discussed. Young and older people were investigated for the effect of word frequency and orthographic length and neighbourhood measures.

Young adults, Linguistics, Old age

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