Memory for temporal context : Effects of aging, encoding instructions and retrieval strategies

[en] Young and older adults were compared on a list discrimination task. In Experiment 1, performance declined with aging after incidental and intentional encoding of the temporal context. Moreover, there was no benefit for intentional encoding in either group. In Experiment 2, each list was associated with a different encoding context. There were age differences in performance when participants tried to retrieve the encoding context of the items as a cue for their list of occurrence, but not when participants evaluated temporal distance from the strength of the memory trace. This suggests that the age-related decrease in list discrimination could be at least partly due to a difficulty to infer strategically the temporal context of the items from information encoded in the same time.

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Neurosciences & behavior

Author, co-author :

Bastin, Christine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Psychopathologie Cognitive

Van der Linden, Martial ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychopathologie cognitive

Language :

English

Title :

Memory for temporal context : Effects of aging, encoding instructions and retrieval strategies

Publication date :

2005

Journal title :

Memory

ISSN :

0965-8211

eISSN :

1464-0686

Publisher :

Taylor & Francis Ltd, Basingstoke, United Kingdom

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Issue :

Pages :

95-109

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a741921333

Name of the research project :

Actions de Recherche Concertées (convention 99/04-246)

Funders :

DGENORS - Communauté française de Belgique. Direction générale de l’Enseignement non obligatoire et de la Recherche scientifique

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