title: Face-name learning in older adults: a benefit of hyper-binding.
abstract: Difficulty remembering faces and corresponding names is a hallmark of cognitive aging, as is increased susceptibility to distraction. Given evidence that older adults spontaneously encode relationships between target pictures and simultaneously occurring distractors (a hyper-binding phenomenon), we asked whether memory for face-name pairs could be improved through prior exposure to faces presented with distractor names. In three experiments, young and older adults performed a selective attention task on faces while ignoring superimposed names. After a delay, they learned and were tested on face-name pairs that were either maintained or rearranged from the initial task but were not told of the connection between tasks. In each experiment, older but not younger participants showed better memory for maintained than for rearranged pairs, indicating that older adults' natural propensity to tacitly encode and bind relevant and irrelevant information can be employed to aid face-name memory performance.
authors.affiliation: Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6A 2E1. jennifer.weeks@utoronto.ca.|Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3, Canada. jennifer.weeks@utoronto.ca.
authors.forename: Jennifer C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Weeks
authors.affiliation: Neuropsychology & Cognitive Health, Baycrest, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6A 2E1.
authors.forename: Renée K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Biss
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3, Canada.|Neuropsychology & Cognitive Health, Baycrest, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6A 2E1.
authors.forename: Kelly J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.affiliation: Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6A 2E1. hasher@psych.utoronto.ca.|Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3, Canada. hasher@psych.utoronto.ca.
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hasher
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001245:Association Learning; D001288:Attention; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008875:Middle Aged; D009275:Names; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Aging & attention; Aging & memory; Implicit memory; Inhibition
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