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Measures of fluency as predictors of incidental memory among older adults
Journal title	Psychology and Aging, vol 15, no 3, September 2000
Pages	pp 483-489
Keywords	Cognitive processes ; Mental clarity ; Mental speed ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Performance ; Measurement ; Australia.
Annotation	Language fluency and age-related declines in incidental memory performance are both thought to rely on strategic retrieval processes. A large sample of older people living in the community from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ALSA) completed a battery of tests assessing fluency, verbal knowledge, speed of information processing, and incidental recall. Fluency measures included initial and excluded letter fluency and the Uses for Objects Test, and they were assumed to reflect increasing reliance on strategic retrieval search. Speed emerged as the best indicator of age-related variance after controlling for verbal knowledge and speed. The results suggest that age-related decline in incidental recall is largely due to speed and the strategic search of memory. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-001024216 A
Classmark	DA: DF: DG: DB: 5H: 3R: 7YA
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