Biomedical subjects

D J LaVoie

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PubMed1998

False recognition effects in young and older adults' memory for text passages.

Recent work has demonstrated an age-related increase in susceptibility to illusory memories; specifically, older adults make more false recognition responses to unstudied items when such items are semantically related to studied items. The majority of studies have examined false recognition for semantically associated words; the current study extends that previous work by examining false recognition effects for schematized story actions. In two experiments young and older adults studied schematized stories and were later given a recognition test for studied and unstudied story actions. Our results indicate that both age groups produced robust false recognition effects, but older adults were not more susceptible to these effects. These results suggest there are limits to the range of circumstances that yield age differences in illusory memories.

Adolescent↗

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Age differences in false recognition using a forced choice paradigm.

Recent findings suggest that older adults may be more susceptible to false recognition responses than younger adults because of age differences in gist-based processing at both encoding and retrieval. It has been suggested that age differences in the quality of memory representations that result from this age-related reliance on gist processing can produce age differences in response criteria, with older adults employing more lenient criteria than young adults. Support for this argument comes from studies where suppressed false recognition in older adults occurs with shifts toward more conservative response criteria. The current study further examined this issue by minimizing the effects of response criteria by using a two alternative forced-choice task in the study of false recognition in young and older adults. This manipulation reduced false recognition in both young and older adults, but did not eliminate age differences in false recognition.

Adult↗