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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• LIGHT, Leah L
• PATTERSON, Meredith M
• CHUNG, Christie
• HEALY, Michael R

Titel

Effects of repetition and response deadline on associative recognition in young and older adults

Ist Teil von

• Memory & cognition, 2004-10, Vol.32 (7), p.1182-1193

Ort / Verlag

Austin, TX: Psychonomic Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The present study examined the joint effects of repetition and response deadline on associative recognition in older adults. Young and older adults studied lists of unrelated word pairs, half presented once (weak pairs) and half presented four times (strong pairs). Test lists contained old (intact) pairs, pairs consisting of old words that had been studied with other partners (rearranged lures), and unstudied pairs (new lures), and participants were asked to respond "old" only to intact pairs. In Experiment 1, participants were tested with both short and long deadlines. In Experiment 2, the tests were unpaced. In both experiments, repetition increased hit rates for young and older adults. Young adults tested with a long deadline showed reduced (Experiment 1) or invariant (Experiment 2) false alarms to rearranged lures when word pairs were studied more often. Young adults tested with a short deadline and older adults tested under all conditions had increased false alarm rates forstrong rearranged pairs. Implications of these results for theories of associative recognition and cognitive aging are explored.