Five-year retention of the classically conditioned eyeblink response in young adult, middle-aged, and older humans

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to determine the conditioned eyeblink response in young, middle aged and older individuals over a retention period of five years. The study on the long-term retention of conditioned response (CR) was necessary since it was associated to age-related disorders of learning and memory. Results revealed that CR was retained over long periods and the extent of retention was age-dependent. Reacquisition rates were higher in young individuals compared with rates of middle aged and aged participants.

Research, Youth, Children's memory, Memory in old age, Old age memory, Memory in youth, Visual learning, Eyelid conditioning

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The effect of word frequency, word predictability, and font difficulty on eye movements of young and older readers

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Eye movement characteristics of older and young adult readers is examined as they read sentences half of which were printed in a font that was easy to read and the other half in a font that was more difficult to read. Word frequency, word predictability and font difficulty effects were apparent in the eye movement data of both groups of readers, the older ones had larger frequency and predictability effects than the younger readers and lexical processing was slower in older readers.

Public affairs, Massachusetts, Social aspects, Reading

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Not your parents' test scores: cohort reduces psychometric aging effects

Article Abstract:

Hypotheses about the way in which cohort influences age changes on five different cognitive psychometric tests are studied. Findings show major significances for the aging workforce productivity.

Analysis, Cognitive psychology

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