title: A pilot study of performance in young and middle-aged adults on verbal recall.
abstract: The objective was to explore whether middle-aged adults (M age = 48.9 yr.; n = 26) differed on verbal recall from young adults (M age = 26.3 yr.; n = 26). Little data exist on the performance of middle-aged, healthy adults. Groups of young and middle-aged adults recalled words from the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test across six trials during a single session. The same 15 words were used for recall in Trials 1-5. Prior to the sixth trial, 15 distractor words were presented. Participants then recalled the original set of 15 words. No significant differences occurred on any of the recall trials. Although the power of this study was low, the effect of age is apparently quite small.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Northern Iowa, 230 Communication Arts Center, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0356, USA. angela.burda@uni.edu
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burda
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Flatness
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lyons
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sorensen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012016:Reference Values; D014706:Verbal Learning; D055815:Young Adult