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Daily-life difficulties in person recognition reported by young and elderly subjects
Schweich, Myriam; Van der Linden, Martial; Brédart, Serge et al.
1992In Applied Cognitive Psychology, 6, p. 161-172
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Keywords :
évaluation; groupe d'âge; mémoire-trouble; reconnaissance des mots; reconnaissance des visages
Abstract :
[en] Elderly people frequently complain spontaneously about their inability to remember people and their names. Naturalistic methods such as diaries, checklists, etc. provide useful means to study and make more explicit the nature of such memory difficulties among the elderly, as well as to better understand normal memory functioning. We developed a checklist (inspired by a study by Young, Hay and Ellis, 1985) to explore normal young and elderly people's difficulties in person recognition. The checklist is composed of four parts, each one corresponding to a particular context in which the difficulty took place. Each part has the same structure and consists of precise questions about the type of incident, the circumstances, the persons involved, and the way the incident ended. Three groups of normal subjects kept records of their difficulties and errors in recognizing people for 1 month: young subjects with a bad memory for faces, young subjects without particular problems of face memory, and a group of elderly subjects. A total of 299 records were collected. They were classified with respect to the functional components presumably implied in the process breakdown. The elderly subjects experienced difficulties with retrieving names, first names, or nicknames (Name Codes), while the young subjects with a bad memory for faces reported overall the greatest number of incidents and were particularly impaired in access to Face Recognition Units. A characterization of these two kinds of difficulties is proposed. Young subjects without problems of face memory presented equal numbers of difficulties at all stages of person recognition. These patterns of results will be discussed in terms of current cognitive models of person recognition.
Research center :
Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives et Comportementales - ULiège
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Schweich, Myriam
Van der Linden, Martial ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychopathologie cognitive
Brédart, Serge ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie cognitive
Bruyer, Raymond
Nelles, B.
Schils, Jean-Pierre
Language :
English
Title :
Daily-life difficulties in person recognition reported by young and elderly subjects
Publication date :
1992
Journal title :
Applied Cognitive Psychology
ISSN :
0888-4080
eISSN :
1099-0720
Publisher :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Volume :
6
Pages :
161-172
Peer reviewed :
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