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Aging, encoding specificity, and memory change in the Double Memory Test

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2009

Herman Buschke ,
Martin Sliwinski ,
Gail Kuslansky  and
Richard B. Lipton
Herman Buschke
Affiliation:
The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology and Rose F. Kennedy Center for Mental Retardation and Human Development, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
Martin Sliwinski
Affiliation:
The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology and Rose F. Kennedy Center for Mental Retardation and Human Development, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
Gail Kuslansky
Affiliation:
The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology and Rose F. Kennedy Center for Mental Retardation and Human Development, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
Richard B. Lipton
Affiliation:
The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology and Rose F. Kennedy Center for Mental Retardation and Human Development, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
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Abstract

Aged and young adults were tested by category cued recall after learning with category cues (CCR) or with item cues (ICR). CCR was about twice ICR for both aged and young adults. The aged recalled less than the young and did not benefit as much from greater encoding specificity and deeper processing in CCR. ICR and CCR were correlated, so that expected CCR can be predicted from ICR. The regression of CCR on ICR was linear for young adults, but was piecewise linear for the aged, showing that the relationship between ICR and CCR was not uniform for the aged adults. Lower than expected CCR by a subset of aged without clinical dementia may be a sign of preclinical dementia. (JINS, 1995, I, 483–493.)

Keywords

AgingEncoding-specificityPreclinical dementia
Type
Research Articles
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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 1 , Issue 5 , September 1995 , pp. 483 - 493
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Copyright © The International Neuropsychological Society 1995

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