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Adult age differences in source recall — a population-based study
Author(s)	Karin Erngrund, Timo Mäntylä, Lars-Göran Nilsson
Journal title	The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 51B, no 6, November 1996
Pages	pp P335-P345
Keywords	Memory and Reminiscence ; Age groups [elderly] ; Age group distribution statistics ; Sweden.
Annotation	The age-related tendency to forget the source of information, even when the fact is retained, is suggested to be a specific feature of cognitive ageing. Age differences in source recall were investigated in a population-based sample of 1000 healthy adults aged 35 to 80 years. Participants, who were screened on a variety of demographic, psychological and biological variables, studied facts about well-known or unknown people that were presented in four different ways, depicting four different sources of item information. An age-related deterioration of both item and source recall was observed, source recall being the more impaired. Source error analyses revealed an increase of source amnesia in subjects aged 75 to 80 years. Individual differences in background variables, age, gender, and word comprehension were related to source recall of well-known items, whereas age and years of formal education were related to source recall of unknown items.
Accession Number	CPA-971125226 A
Classmark	DB: BB: S6: 76P
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