Processing Speed and Adult Age Differences in Activity Memory

Earles, Julie L.; Kersten, Alan W.

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“…As expected, older adults scored significantly higher ( M =36.08, SD =2.15) than younger adults ( M =27.47, SD =3.50) on the Shipley (1986) vocabulary test, t (52)=10.56, p <.001. The results of the vocabulary test suggest that the older participants were a good match for the younger participants in terms of intelligence relative to their age mates, with vocabulary scores typically increasing with age in college-educated populations (e.g., Earles & Kersten, 1999). …”

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Memory for positive, negative and neutral events in younger and older adults: Does emotion influence binding in event memory?

Earles

Kersten

Vernon

et al. 2015

Cognition and Emotion

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When remembering an event, it is important to remember both the features of the event (e.g., a person and an action), and the connections among features (e.g., who performed which action). Emotion often enhances memory for stimulus features, but the relationship between emotion and the binding of features in memory is unclear. Younger and older adults attempted to remember events in which a person performed a negative, positive, or neutral action. Memory for the action was enhanced by emotion, but emotion did not enhance the ability of participants to remember which person performed which action. Older adults were more likely than younger adults to make binding errors in which they incorrectly remembered a familiar actor performing a familiar action that had actually been performed by someone else, and this age-related associative deficit was found for both neutral and emotional actions. Emotion increased correct recognition of old events for older and younger adults but also increased false recognition of events in which a familiar actor performed a familiar action that had been performed by someone else. Thus, although emotion may enhance memory for the features of an event, it does not increase the accuracy of remembering who performed which action.

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Memory for positive, negative and neutral events in younger and older adults: Does emotion influence binding in event memory?

Earles

Kersten

Vernon

et al. 2015

Cognition and Emotion

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Physical Activity

Beurskens

Dalecki

2017

Physical Activity and the Aging Brain

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Spatial learning efficiency and error monitoring in normal aging: An investigation using a novel hidden maze learning test

Pietrzak

Cohen

Snyder

2007

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

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This study compared 19 older adults and 20 younger adults on the Groton Maze Learning Test((c)) (GMLT), a novel computerized hidden maze learning test that assesses processing speed, spatial learning efficiency, and error monitoring. Convergent validity of this test was assessed by comparing GMLT scores to Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT) and Tower of Toronto (TOT) scores. In the full sample, all GMLT measures correlated strongly with both PASAT and TOT scores (r's=0.53 to 0.73). GMLT measures most sensitive to detecting between-group differences were the Timed Chase Test (TCT), legal errors, and perseverative errors (Cohen's d's=3.81, 2.40, and 2.40, respectively). Scores on the visuomotor processing speed subtest of the GMLT attenuated the relationship between age group and maze efficiency index scores, but not perseverative and "rule-break" errors. These results suggest that normal aging is associated with impaired performance on a novel computerized measure of spatial learning efficiency and error monitoring, and that processing speed attenuates the relationship between age and spatial learning efficiency.

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Processing Speed and Adult Age Differences in Activity Memory

Cited by 13 publications

References 12 publications

Memory for positive, negative and neutral events in younger and older adults: Does emotion influence binding in event memory?

Memory for positive, negative and neutral events in younger and older adults: Does emotion influence binding in event memory?

Physical Activity

Spatial learning efficiency and error monitoring in normal aging: An investigation using a novel hidden maze learning test

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