Associative recognition memory for faces: more pronounced age-related impairments in binding intra- than inter-item associations.
Performance in recognition memory for associations between arbitrarily paired items is substantially disrupted in old age. The present study examined whether older adults show more or less of a deficit when the to-be-associated items can be 'unitized' into a single representation during encoding. Re...
| Publicado en: | Experimental Aging Research Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 123 - 140 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr-Jun2010
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| Sumario: | Performance in recognition memory for associations between arbitrarily paired items is substantially disrupted in old age. The present study examined whether older adults show more or less of a deficit when the to-be-associated items can be 'unitized' into a single representation during encoding. Results revealed that older adults are disproportionately impaired in their memory for unitizable face-pairs, suggesting substantial age deficits in unitization processes required for the formation of associations between highly overlapping stimuli. Potential compensatory mechanisms are discussed that may account for these preliminary results of a selective age deficit in the encoding or retrieval of intra-item associations. |
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