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How strong is the evidence for mediational hypotheses of age-related memory loss?
— commentary | | Author(s) | M Sliwinski, S Hofer |
| Journal title | Gerontology, vol 45, no 6, November/December 1999 |
| Pages | pp 351-354 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Research. |
| Annotation | In the first 1999 issue of Gerontology several current hypotheses of age-related memory loss were canvassed. In the hope of fostering debate and further consideration of factors implicated in memory loss in late adulthood, commentaries were sought by this journal from a number of prominent cognitive ageing researchers. This third out of four commentaries considers the strength of the empirical evidence supporting theories of age-related memory loss. The authors suggest that supporting evidence for mediational hypotheses of cognitive ageing derives from potentionally ambiguous statistical techniques, is based on untested assumptions about the between and within person source variance, is not supported by longitudinal studies, and relies heavily on arguments of parsimony. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991201223 A |
| Classmark | DB: 3A |
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