Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Contextual effects upon text memory for young, aged-normal, and aged memory-impaired individuals

G J Spilich, J F Voss

    Experimental Aging Research
    |January 1, 1982
    PubMed
    Summary

    Older adults, especially those with memory impairments, struggle with text recall compared to younger individuals. Contextual cues help memory recall in younger and normal-aging adults but not in those with impaired memory.

    Related Concept Videos

    You might also read

    Related Articles

    Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

    Sort by
    Same author

    Prose Representation: A Multidimensional Scaling Approach.

    Multivariate behavioral research·2016
    Same author

    Acquiring intellectual skills.

    Annual review of psychology·2008
    Same author

    Research into smoking or nicotine and human cognitive performance: does the source of funding make a difference?

    Addiction (Abingdon, England)·1998
    Same author

    Cognitive benefits of nicotine: fact or fiction?

    Addiction (Abingdon, England)·1994
    Same author

    Cigarette smoking and cognitive performance.

    British journal of addiction·1992
    Same author

    Implications of cognitive change for gerontological pedagogical practice.

    International journal of aging & human development·1983

    Area of Science:

    • Cognitive psychology
    • Neuroscience of aging
    • Human memory research

    Background:

    • Aging affects cognitive functions, including memory.
    • Distinguishing normal aging from pathological aging is crucial for understanding memory decline.
    • Contextual information plays a role in memory encoding and retrieval.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate how contextual effects influence text memory in young, normal-aged, and aged memory-impaired individuals.
    • To differentiate memory performance based on age and memory status.
    • To explore the impact of contextual relatedness on sentence recall and recognition.

    Main Methods:

    • Participants (young, aged-normal, aged memory-impaired) read passages with varying contextual relatedness.
    • Free recall and recognition tasks were used to assess text memory.

    Related Experiment Videos

  • The effect of cueing on recall performance was analyzed.

    • Main Results:

    • Significant performance differences were observed between young and elderly participants in free recall.
    • Cueing improved recall for young and normal-aged adults but not for the memory-impaired group.
    • Recognition performance showed no difference between young and normal-aged adults, but was poorer in the aged-impaired group.

    Conclusions:

    • Memory performance in older adults varies, with distinct patterns for normal aging and pathological aging.
    • Contextual information is vital for text memory, particularly in non-impaired aging.
    • The findings support the distinction between normal and pathological aging mechanisms affecting memory.