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| Baseline performance and learning rate of procedural and declarative memory tasks: younger versus older adults | | Author(s) | Eli Vakil, Dafna Agmon-Ashkenazi |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 5, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp P229-P234 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Learning capacity ; Older people ; Young adults [20-25]. |
| Annotation | In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the residual learning capabilities of people with amnesia and older people. The dissociation between impaired and preserved memory task performance has been suggested to reflect different systems - declarative versus non-declarative, the latter including skill and procedural learning. In this study, older and younger adults were compared on declarative and procedural learning tasks, in particular on the different components of the tasks - baseline and learning rate. Results showed that the younger group's baseline performance was better than that of the older group for all tasks in the study, and that a dissociation between the learning rate of declarative and procedural tasks was demonstrated in older participants. The younger group showed a steeper learning rate on declarative tasks, whereas the learning rates of both groups on the procedural tasks did not differ consistently. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125284 A |
| Classmark | DB: DE: B: SD6 |
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