Primed word-fragment completion and successive memory test performance in normal aging.
Young and old subjects were investigated to examine whether: the effects of priming are influenced by aging; there is independence between primed word-fragment completion and recognition performances; and the dependence between different tests is influenced by aging. A successive test paradigm was employed involving repeated assessment of to-be-remembered words by means of recognition and primed word-fragment completion. The results show that implicit memory declines with increasing age, and that correlations between different memory tests decrease with age. The outcome suggests that age-related memory decline involves several forms of memory, including primed word-fragment completion, and is reflected in correlations between measures of implicit and explicit memory.
Karlsson
Thomas
T
Dept. of Behavioral Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden Umeå University, Sweden Stockholm University, Sweden. tk@ibv.liu.se
Adolfsson
Rolf
R
Börjesson
Arne
A
Nilsson
Lars-Göran
LG
D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D014825:Vocabulary