Speed of information processing as a mediator between age and free-recall performance

Article Abstract:

The task-independent speed of information processing as measured by the Digit Symbol Substitution Test acts as an intermediary between age and free-recall performance. The recall performance of younger adults is better than that of older adults. Increasing the number of rehearsals improves recall in younger adults but not in older adults. Younger adults are faster on all speed-of-processing measures and possess a higher backward word span.

Research, Human information processing, Recollection (Psychology), Children's memory, Recall (Memory), Memory in youth

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Adult age differences in the effects of goals on self-regulated sentence processing

Article Abstract:

Study is conducted to examine age differences in adults' allocation of effort when reading text for either high levels of recall accuracy or high levels of efficiency. Older adults showed less accurate than the young in both reading time allocation and memory performance suggesting that processing capacity and beliefs contribute to individual differences in engaging resources to effectively learn novel context from text.

Metacognition, Reading tests

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Search for semantic inhibition failure during sentence comprehension by younger and older adults

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Semantic inhibition failures make no contribution to the age-related decrease in on-line text comprehension. Young and old adults show equivalence in their use of inhibition and context for comprehending unambiguous words. Older adults are less able than younger adults, to eliminate thematically irrelevant information from memory.

Aged, Elderly, Testing, Comprehension, Semantics

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