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Age-related associative deficits and the isolation effect
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Badham, Stephen P. and Maylor, Elizabeth A. (2013) Age-related associative deficits and the isolation effect. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, Volume 20 (Number 4). pp. 405-428. doi:10.1080/13825585.2012.725460 ISSN 1382-5585.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2012.725460
Abstract
If all but one of the items in a list are similar (e.g., all black except one red), memory for the different item is enhanced (the isolation effect). Older adults generally show similar or smaller isolation effects compared to young adults, which has been attributed to age-related deficits in associative memory whereby older adults are less able to associate an isolated stimulus to its isolating feature. Experiment 1 examined the isolation effect for isolation based on spatial position, modality and color; in Experiment 2, the criterion for isolation was the associative relation between stimuli. The results consistently showed no differences between young and older participants in the magnitude of the isolation effect. Whilst age deficits in associative memory may act to reduce the isolation effect in older adults, age deficits in self-initiated processing and inhibitory functionality may counteract this reduction by enhancing the isolation effect in older adults.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition | ||||
Publisher: | Psychology Press | ||||
ISSN: | 1382-5585 | ||||
Official Date: | 1 July 2013 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 20 | ||||
Number: | Number 4 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 405-428 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/13825585.2012.725460 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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