Short-term memory for faces: ageing and the serial position effect.
Properties of short-term memory for faces (Exp. 1) were investigated in 40 young and 30 elderly persons and compared with short-term memory for non-verbal shapes (Exp. 2) with 30 new persons in a young group and an elderly one. Young subjects displayed a U-shaped curve for both kinds of stimuli, and elderly subjects displayed a U-shaped curve, but the recency effect was abolished for faces (in one condition). This suggests a possible specific short-term store for faces.
Bruyer
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University of Louvain, Department of Psychology, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Vanberten
M
M
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D008875:Middle Aged