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| Adult age differences in short-term memory for serial order: data and a model | | Author(s) | Elizabeth A Maylor, Janet I Vousden, Gordon D A Brown |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 4, December 1999 |
| Pages | pp 572-594 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Older people ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Age-related deficits in short-term memory have been widely reported, but reduced overall scores could reflect increased order errors, increased omissions, or increased intrusions. Different explanations for reduced short-term memory with ageing lead to different predictions. In this study, young and older adults were presented with lists of letters and were asked to recall each list immediately in the correct order. Age differences in error patterns were similar for auditory and visual presentation. For example, older adults made more errors of every type, and a greater proportion of the older adults' errors were omissions. An additional condition, in which older adults were encouraged to guess, ruled out an age increase in response threshold as a full explanation for the results. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000403404 A |
| Classmark | DB: B: SD6: 7T |
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