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| Age differences in context integration in memory | | Author(s) | Anderson D Smith, Denise C Park, Julie L K Earles |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 13, no 1, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp 21-28 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Older people ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Episodic memory performance is in part determined by the availability and utility of contextual cues at the time of recall. In this US study, the role of contextual integration in memories of younger and older adults were examined. In two experiments, recall of a target picture to a context picture was better when sentences were generated that integrated the picture pair and when picture pairs were already related to each other. Age differences were smallest when sentences were generated for semantically related pairs. Older people generated the same type sentences as younger people, although they generated fewer integrations for unrelated pairs. In a third experiment younger adults could not differentiate between younger- and older-generated sentences from the first experiment, and the sentences did not differentially affect recall performance. The findings are discussed in terms of age differences in self-initiated processing when using context. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980708403 A |
| Classmark | DB: B: SD6: 7T |
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