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| Effects of divided attention and time course on automatic and controlled components of memory in older adults | | Author(s) | Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 2, June 1999 |
| Pages | pp 331-343 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Mental clarity ; Performance ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The relation between attention available at encoding and automatic and consciously controlled aspects of memory was investigated within a single task using the process-dissociation procedure. 64 older people and 64 young adults studied a word list in either a full or a divided attention condition. Recall cued with word stems was tested immediately and after 20 minutes and 60 minutes. In contrast to consciously controlled influences of memory, automatic influences of memory (a) showed generally no reliable age differences, (b) remained invariant across the manipulation of attention, and (c) remained relatively invariant across the 60 minute time course. Furthermore, age did not interact with the attentional manipulation or the time course factor. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825223 A |
| Classmark | DB: DF: 5H: BB: SD6: 7T |
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