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Assessment of Age-related Changes in Cognitive Functions Using EmoCogMeter, a Novel Tablet-computer Based Approach
Published on: February 14, 2014
Aging and strategic retrieval in a cued-recall test: the role of executive functions and fluid intelligence
Laurence Taconnat1, David Clarys, Sandrine Vanneste
1Départment de Psychologie, UMR-CNRS 6215: Langage, Mémoire et Développement Cognitif and IFR 135, Imagerie Fonctionnelle, Université François-Rabelais de Tours, France. taconnat@univ-tours.fr
Abstract:
Cued-recall in episodic memory was investigated in relation to low and high cognitive support at retrieval, executive function level and fluid intelligence level in 81 healthy adults divided first into two age groups (young and elderly adults). The first analyses showed that age-related differences were greater when a low cognitive support was provided to recall the words. An individual index of loss of performance when the number of cues was decreased was then calculated. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that the executive functions measure (perseverative errors on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test) was a better candidate than the fluid intelligence measure (Cattell's culture fair test) to account for the age-related variance of the size of performance loss. These findings suggest that age differences in implementing strategic retrieval may be mainly due to a decline in executive functions.
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