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Comparison of older people and patients with frontal lesions
— evidence from word list learning | | Author(s) | Donald T Stuss, Fergus I M Craik, Lisa Sayer |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 11, no 3, September 1996 |
| Pages | pp 387-395 |
| Keywords | Mental ageing ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Learning capacity ; Memory disorders. |
| Annotation | The authors examine the hypothesis that changes in memory performance of older normal participants are due to frontal lobe dysfunction, by comparing three groups of normal individuals (young, middle-aged, and older) with three groups of patients with documented lesions in unilateral right, unilateral left, or bilateral frontal regions. Participants were given 4 successive learning trials on each of three lists of words: unrelated, related but presented in a pseudo-random order, and related and presented in a blocked format. Significant correspondences in performance were found between older normal participants and the (younger) frontal damaged groups. The qualitative nature of recall performance, particularly as measured by indices of organisational control processes, was similar between older normals and patients with frontal damage. These results add to evidence that some of the decline in older people in tasks measuring executive or supervisory abilities is due to frontal system dysfunction. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120205 A |
| Classmark | D6: DB: DE: EH |
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