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| Regaining lost time: adult aging and the effect of time restoration on recall of time-compressed speech | | Author(s) | Arthur Wingfield, Patricia A Tun, Christine Koh |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 3, September 1999 |
| Pages | pp 380-389 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Personality ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Several studies have reported that older people have difficulty in comprehension and recall of artificially accelerated time-compressed speech. In this study, two experiments in which time was restored to time-compressed speech were conducted. Experiment 1 showed that both younger and older adults' recall of the speech benefited from the restoration of time, however, time restoration failed to boost the older adults to their baseline levels for unaltered speech. In experiment 2, either 100% or 125% of lost time was restored by inserting pauses, either at linguistic boundaries or at random points within the passages. Experiment 2 showed that the beneficial effects of time restoration depended on where processing time was inserted, as well as how much time was restored. Results are interpreted in terms of age-related slowing in speech processing moderated by preserved linguistic knowledge and short-term conceptual memory. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000114229 A |
| Classmark | DA: DB: DK: 7T |
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