The Effects of Pure Pair Repetition on Younger and Older Adults' Associative Memory
The Effects of Pure Pair Repetition on Younger and Older Adults' Associative Memory
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DOI：
10.1037/a0022525
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发表时间：
2011-05-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe
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作者：
Kilb, Angela;Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe
尽管衰老会对组件的识别记忆造成相对较小的损害，但与年轻人相比，老年人记住组件之间的关联的能力通常会受到严重损害。这种模式可能与老年人相对完整的熟悉度有关，这有助于保存组成部分的记忆，再加上记忆力显著下降，导致联想记忆下降。目前这项研究的目的是探索可能的方法，允许老年人依赖结对熟悉，以提高他们的联想记忆表现。在两个实验中，参与者在研究列表之前被重复呈现单个项目或项目配对，以便项目和配对在研究阶段已经很熟悉。纯配对重复(在考虑到项目重复的影响后，配对重复的影响)增加了老年人和年轻人的联想记忆。基于记忆和知晓判断的研究结果表明，熟悉而不是回忆参与了重复效应的调节。
Although aging causes relatively minor impairment in recognition memory for components, older adults' ability to remember associations between components is typically significantly compromised, relative to that of younger adults. This pattern could be associated with older adults' relatively intact familiarity, which helps preserve component memory, coupled with a marked decline in recollection, which leads to a decline in associative memory. The purpose of the current study is to explore possible methods that allow older adults to rely on pair familiarity in order to improve their associative memory performance. Participants in 2 experiments were repeatedly presented with either single items or pairings of items prior to a study list so that the items and the pairs were already familiar during the study phase. Pure pair repetition (the effects of pair repetition after the effects of item repetition are taken into account) increased associative memory for older and younger adults. Findings based on remember and know judgments suggest that familiarity but not recollection is involved in mediating the repetition effect.