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Effects of aging on absolute identification of duration

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McCormack, Teresa, Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.), Maylor, Elizabeth A., Richardson, Lucy B. N. and Darby , Richard J. (2002) Effects of aging on absolute identification of duration. Psychology and Aging, Vol.17 (No.3). pp. 363-378. doi:10.1037//0882-7974.17.3.363

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Abstract

Experiments to examine the effects of aging on the ability to identify temporal durations in an absolute identification task are reported. In Experiment 1, older adults were worse than younger adults in identifying a tone's position within a series of 6 tones of varied durations. In Experiment 2, participants were required to identify a tone's position in 9 tones of varied durations. Older adults' performance was again worse than that of younger adults; moreover, they showed a qualitatively different pattern of errors than younger adults. In Experiment 3, in which the tones varied in pitch, the performance of older adults was worse than that of younger adults, but the error patterns of the 2 groups were similar. The results suggest that older adults have distorted memory representations for durations but not for pitch.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Psychology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Reaction time, Human information processing -- Age factors, Memory -- Age factors
Journal or Publication Title: Psychology and Aging
Publisher: American Psychological Society
ISSN: 0882-7974
Official Date: September 2002
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DateEvent
September 2002Published
Volume: Vol.17
Number: No.3
Number of Pages: 16
Page Range: pp. 363-378
DOI: 10.1037//0882-7974.17.3.363
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Great Britain) (BBSRC), Medical Research Council (Great Britain) (MRC)
Grant number: G9608199 (MRC), G9606610N (MRC), G9805928 (MRC), R000 23 9002 (ESRC), 88/515050 (BBSRC)

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