Effects of spacing of item repetitions in continuous recognition memory: does item retrieval difficulty promote item retention in older adults?
Effects of spacing of item repetitions in continuous recognition memory: does item retrieval difficulty promote item retention in older adults?
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连续识别记忆中项目重复间隔的影响：项目检索困难是否会促进老年人的项目保留？
DOI：
10.1080/0361073x.2013.779200
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Howard,MarcW
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作者：
Kılıç,Aslı;Hoyer,WilliamJ;Howard,MarcW
背景/研究背景：老年人表现出与年龄相关的项目记忆的保留间隔的长度的函数，但老年人和年轻人通常表现出大致相同的好处，由于连续记忆任务中的项目重复的间隔。本实验采用连续再认记忆程序研究了年轻人和老年人的保持间隔和间隔的看似矛盾的影响。50名年轻人和52名老年人对呈现一次（P1）、两次（P2）或三次（P3）的单词进行了记忆信心评级，并在P2和P3评估了滞后长度和保持间隔的影响。respectively.Results:在P2的反应时间不成比例地长于老年人比年轻人作为一个功能的项目发生在P1和P2之间的数量，提示与年龄相关的项目记忆的损失。对记忆反应的信心评级显示，老年人在P2时记住的项目较少，具有高度的确定性。在P3时给出的置信度表明，年轻人和老年人从P1和P2之间的间隔中获得了相同的益处。结论：本研究的结果支持了递归提醒和/或项目提取困难促进老年人项目保持的理论解释。
Background/Study Context: Older adults exhibit an age-related deficit in item memory as a function of the length of the retention interval, but older adults and young adults usually show roughly equivalent benefits due to the spacing of item repetitions in continuous memory tasks. The current experiment investigates the seemingly paradoxical effects of retention interval and spacing in young and older adults using a continuous recognition memory procedure.Methods: Fifty young adults and 52 older adults gave memory confidence ratings to words that were presented once (P1), twice (P2), or three times (P3), and the effects of the lag length and retention interval were assessed at P2 and at P3, respectively.Results: Response times at P2 were disproportionately longer for older adults than for younger adults as a function of the number of items occurring between P1 and P2, suggestive of age-related loss in item memory. Ratings of confidence in memory responses revealed that older adults remembered fewer items at P2 with a high degree of certainty. Confidence ratings given at P3 suggested that young and older adults derived equivalent benefits from the spacing between P1 and P2.Conclusion: Findings of this study support theoretical accounts that suggest that recursive reminding and/or item retrieval difficulty promote item retention in older adults.