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Memorizing while walking
— increase in dual task costs from young adulthood to old age | | Author(s) | Ulman Lindenberger, Michael Marsiske, Paul B Baltes |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 15, no 3, September 2000 |
| Pages | pp 417-436 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Mobility ; Young adults [20-25] ; Middle aged ; Young elderly ; Performance. |
| Annotation | The dual task of memorising word lists while walking was predicted to become more difficult with age, because balance and gait are in greater need of "attentional resources". 47 young (age 20-30), 45 middle aged (40-50) and 48 old (60-70) adults were trained to criterion in a mnemonic technique and instructed to walk quickly and accurately on 2 narrow tracks of different path complexity. Then, participants encoded the word lists while sitting, standing or walking on either track; likewise, speed and accuracy of walking performance were assessed with and without concurrent memory encoding. Dual-task costs increased with age in both domains; relative to young adults, the effect size of the overall increase was 0.98 standard deviation units for middle aged, and 1.47 standard deviation units for older people. It is argued that sensory and motor aspects of behaviour are increasingly in need of cognitive control with advancing age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001024214 A |
| Classmark | DB: C4: SD6: SE: BBA: 5H |
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