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Differential age effects in semantic and episodic memory
Author(s)	Philip A Allen, Martin Sliwinski, Tanara Bowie
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 2, March 2002
Pages	pp P173-P186
Keywords	Memory and Reminiscence ; Personality ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Correlation ; United States of America.
Annotation	Results from 4 experimental tasks and 8 data sets as well as a vocabulary test conducted on the same 80 participants (40 younger, age range 18-44; and 40 older Americans, age range 63-90) are reported. The authors used 2 semantic memory tasks (lexical decision and multiplication verification) using data from two sessions (for a total of 4 semantic data sets) and 2 episodic memory tasks (hybrid visual search and memory search with digits and with words as stimuli). Results obtained from factor analysis and a structural equation model indicate data as being consistent with a theoretical framework in which there are age-related dissociations between peripheral and central processes across semantic and episodic memory. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020614208 A
Classmark	DB: DK: BB: SD6: 49: 7T
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