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| Research article summary (published 30 May 2003): |
Interference effects from divided attention during retrieval in younger and older adults.
Full Abstract
The authors examined how retrieval, under divided attention (DA) conditions, is affected by the type of material in a concurrent task, and whether aging produces larger interference effects on memory. Young and old adults studied a list of unrelated words under full attention, and recalled them while performing either an animacy decision task to words or an odd-digit identification task to numbers. The animacy-distracting task interfered substantially with retrieval, and the size of the effect was not amplified in older compared with younger adults. DA using the odd-digit task did not produce as large an interference effect. These findings support the component-process model of memory, and pose problems for resource models of interference from DA at retrieval.
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Author/s: Fernandes, Myra A (MA); Moscovitch, Morris (M);
Affiliation: Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. mfernandes(-atsign-)rotman-baycrest.on.ca
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Clinical Trial; Controlled Clinical Trial; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Psychology and aging (Psychol Aging), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Jun; vol 18 (issue 2) : pp 219-30
Dates: Created 2003/06/26; Completed 2003/10/31; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12825772, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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