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| Age differences in mental multiplication: evidence for peripheral but not central decrements | | Author(s) | Philip A Allen, Albert F Smith, Kathy A Jerge |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 2, March 1997 |
| Pages | pp P81-P90 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Reasoning ; Mental speed ; Older people ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Research has shown that older people retrieve arithmetic information from long-term memory as efficiently as younger adults, although they tend to take longer to complete peripheral processing. This study conducted two mental multiplication experiments that were designed to measure age differences in central and peripheral processes. Experiment one varied task type (verification versus production) and experiment two varied exposure duration. Neither experiment showed evidence of age differences in central processes, such as retrieval speed, however, there was some evidence of a peripheral process decrement for older adults. The results suggest that the magnitude of age differences in central processing speed are significantly less extreme than are age differences for peripheral processing speed for this type of mental arithmetic task. In addition, older adults may have a higher skill level for basic fact retrieval in mental arithmetic than do young adults. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125239 A |
| Classmark | DB: DC: DG: B: SD6: 7T |
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