Inhibition in the processing of garden-path sentences

Article Abstract:

The Hartman and Hasher garden-path sentence task has been used to determine the efficiency of the deletion function of inhibition. Results have indicated that younger adults can effectively suppress once relevant but no longer appropriate information, while older adults cannot. An alternative interpretation of patterns of relevant and no-longer relevant sentence endings concentrates on the problems of selecting final words for sentences. It is concluded that the task does measure inhibitory efficiency.

Aging, Inhibition, Inhibition (Psychology)

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The influence of emotional valence on age difference and processing memory

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Older and younger adults' attentional biases and subsequent incidental recognition memory for distracting positive, negative and neutral words were examined. Results showed that younger adults were more distracted by negative stimuli than positive or neutral stimuli and they correctly recognized more negative than positive words. Older adults attended equally to all stimuli yet showed reliable recognition only for positive words.

Recognition (Psychology), Recognition (Memory)

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Attentional disregulation: A benefit for implicit memory

Article Abstract:

The effect of age and time of testing on the ability to control attention and the possibility of older adults' susceptibility to distraction, which may sometimes facilitate performance on a later cognitive task, were investigated. Older and young adults demonstrated greater memory for distractors at nonoptimal times of day than at optimal times of the day.

Implicit memory

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