title: Differential age-related influences on memory for verbal-symbolic information and visual-spatial information?
abstract: Adults from a wide range of ages were administered parallel versions of three memory tasks designed to involve verbal-symbolic information or visual-spatial information. Several analytical procedures were used to determine whether there were selective age-related effects on measures reflecting spatial information processing compared to those reflecting verbal-symbolic information processing. The results provided little support for this hypothesis and instead were consistent with the existence of a common age-related factor that contributes to the age differences in many cognitive measures.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Salthouse
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008606:Mental Processes; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013028:Space Perception; D013561:Symbolism; D014796:Visual Perception