TY - JOUR
T1 - Age differences in picture memory with resemblance and discrimination tasks
AU - Till, Robert E.
AU - Bartlett, James C.
AU - Doyle, Alexandria H.
N1 - Funding Information:
‘This article is based, in part, on a thesjs by the third author and was supported by organized research funds from the University of Texas at Dallas and by a grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health to the first and second authors (#I R03 MH33341-01). Requests for reprints should be sent to Robert E. Till, Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202, U.S.A. *From the Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202, U.S.A. ’From the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, U.S.A.
PY - 1982
Y1 - 1982
N2 - Previous research on recognition memory has examined age-related effects on knowledge of the difference between lures and input items (e.g., false alarm rate), but has not examined age-related effects on knowledge of the resemblance between lures and input items. In the present experiment, subjects in two age groups (means = 19.3 years and 63.8 years) saw a list of scenic pictures, followed by a recognition test containing same-photo items, each a copy of an input picture, same-scene items, each from the same original scene as an input picture, and different-scene items. The task was to categorize each test picture as same-photo, same-scene or different-scene. There were no reliable age differences on standard recognition measures of hits and false alarms. However, younger subjects were better than older subjects at detecting the resemblance between same-scene items and input items, although this age difference was less apparent when the initial encoding provided experience with resemblance detection. The results have implications regarding age effects in picture memory and in recognition memory generally.
AB - Previous research on recognition memory has examined age-related effects on knowledge of the difference between lures and input items (e.g., false alarm rate), but has not examined age-related effects on knowledge of the resemblance between lures and input items. In the present experiment, subjects in two age groups (means = 19.3 years and 63.8 years) saw a list of scenic pictures, followed by a recognition test containing same-photo items, each a copy of an input picture, same-scene items, each from the same original scene as an input picture, and different-scene items. The task was to categorize each test picture as same-photo, same-scene or different-scene. There were no reliable age differences on standard recognition measures of hits and false alarms. However, younger subjects were better than older subjects at detecting the resemblance between same-scene items and input items, although this age difference was less apparent when the initial encoding provided experience with resemblance detection. The results have implications regarding age effects in picture memory and in recognition memory generally.
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U2 - 10.1080/03610738208260362
DO - 10.1080/03610738208260362
M3 - Article
C2 - 7169078
AN - SCOPUS:0020452113
SN - 0361-073X
VL - 8
SP - 179
EP - 184
JO - Experimental Aging Research
JF - Experimental Aging Research
IS - 4
ER -