title: Recollection training and transfer effects in older adults: successful use of a repetition-lag procedure.
abstract: We examined an approach aimed at training consciously-controlled recollection, introduced by Jennings and Jacoby (2003) , for its ability to replicate and generalize. A continuous recognition task, requiring recollection to identify the occurrence of repeated items over gradually increasing lag intervals (number of intervening items between the first and second presentation of a repeated word), was given to a group of older adults twice a week for three weeks. Pre-and-post training performance was assessed on multiple measures and compared with a recognition practice and no contact control group. Recollection training proved successful; accurate identification of repeated items increased across a lag interval of 2 to 18 intervening items. Post-training gains following recollection training were found on n-back, self-ordered pointing, source discrimination and digit symbol substitution, but not with reading span or the CVLT-II. No changes were identified in the other groups. Gains from recollection training seem to transfer successfully in older adults.
authors.affiliation: a Wake Forest University.
authors.forename: Janine M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Jennings
authors.forename: Lauren M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Webster
authors.forename: Bethea A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Kleykamp
authors.forename: Dale
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dagenbach
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D014163:Transfer, Psychology