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Age differences in episodic memory, semantic memory, and priming — relationship to demographic, intellectual, and biological factors
Author(s)	Lars Nyberg, Lars Bäckman, Karin Erngrund
Journal title	The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 51B, no 4, July 1996
Pages	pp P234-P240
Keywords	Memory and Reminiscence ; Learning capacity ; Mental clarity ; Cognitive processes ; Mental ageing ; Adults ; Age groups [elderly] ; Cross sectional surveys.
Annotation	This study examined the age effect in tests of episodic memory, semantic memory and priming. It also determined whether an age effect existed after differences on various demographic, intellectual and biological factors had been controlled for. Simple correlations of age with episodic and semantic memory were found to be significant, whereas no relationship was found between age and levels of priming. After controlling for differences on the background factors, age predicted episodic but not semantic memory performance. It is proposed that failure to account for age effect on episodic memory is because it is caused by age-related neuronal changes.
Accession Number	CPA-970704012 A
Classmark	DB: DE: DF: DA: D6: SD: BB: 3KB
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