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Associative recognition memory for faces: more pronounced age-related impairments in binding intra- than inter-item associations

Performance in recognition memory for associations between arbitrarily paired items is substantially disrupted in old age. The present study examined whether older adults show more or less of a deficit when the to-be-associated items can be ‘unitized’ into a single representation during encoding. Re...

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Main Authors: Jäger, Theodor (Author) , Mecklinger, Axel (Author) , Kliegel, Matthias (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 05 Mar 2010
In: Experimental aging research
Year: 2010, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 123-139
ISSN:1096-4657
DOI:10.1080/03610731003613391
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610731003613391
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Author Notes:Theodor Jäger (Department of Psychology, Experimental Neuropsychology Unit, Saarland University, Saarbruecken; and Department of Neurology, Universitätsklinikum Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim), Axel Mecklinger (Department of Psychology, Experimental Neuropsychology Unit,Saarland University, Saarbruecken), Matthias Kliegel (Department of Psychology, Developmental Psychology Unit,Dresden University of Technology, Dresden)
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Summary:Performance in recognition memory for associations between arbitrarily paired items is substantially disrupted in old age. The present study examined whether older adults show more or less of a deficit when the to-be-associated items can be ‘unitized’ into a single representation during encoding. Results revealed that older adults are disproportionately impaired in their memory for unitizable face-pairs, suggesting substantial age deficits in unitization processes required for the formation of associations between highly overlapping stimuli. Potential compensatory mechanisms are discussed that may account for these preliminary results of a selective age deficit in the encoding or retrieval of intra-item associations.
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ISSN:1096-4657
DOI:10.1080/03610731003613391

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