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| Age-related differences in an ecologically based study of route learning | | Author(s) | Sandra M Wilkniss, Meribeth G Jones, Donna L Korol |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 2, June 1997 |
| Pages | pp 372-375 |
| Keywords | Learning capacity ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Arrangement ; Young adults [20-25] ; Age groups [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Spatial learning abilities in younger adults and in healthy older people were examined in two tasks. In the first, participants were tested for their ability to recall relevant route information, as well as to recognise and to order temporally, landmark information observed along the route. Older participants had relatively greater difficulty retracing the route and temporo-spatially ordering landmarks, but were equally good at recognition of landmarks on the route. In the second task, participants memorised a map of a route, and subsequently navigated the route from memory. Older participants had greater difficulty memorising the route and navigating it. Errors of omission, commission, wrong, and forced choice were analysed. Group differences in the pattern of errors differed by task. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120267 A |
| Classmark | DE: DB: 5D: SD6: BB: 7T |
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