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| Converging evidence that visuospatial cognition is more age-sensitive than verbal cognition | | Author(s) | Lisa Jenkins, Joel Myerson, Jennifer A Joerding |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 15, no 1, March 2000 |
| Pages | pp 157-175 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Learning capacity ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In three separate experiments, the same samples of young and older Americans were tested on verbal and visuo-spatial processing speed, memory, and paired associates learning tasks. In Experiment 1, older people were generally slower than their younger counterparts on all speeded tasks, but age-related slowing was much more pronounced on visuo-spatial tasks than on verbal tasks. In Experiment 2, older people showed smaller memory spans than young adults in general, but memory for locations showed a greater age difference than memory for letters. In Experiment 3, older people had greater difficulty learning novel information than young adults overall, but older people showed grater deficits learning visuo-spatial than verbal information. Taken together, the differential deficits observed on both speeded and unspeeded tasks strongly suggest that visuo-spatial cognition is generally more affected by ageing than verbal cognition. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000713001 A |
| Classmark | DA: DE: DB: BB: SD6: 7T |
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