Older adults' name-face association learning is facilitated for names with high-frequency first syllables.

Autor: Headen BA; Psychology Department, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA., James LE; Psychology Department, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The British journal of developmental psychology [Br J Dev Psychol] 2024 Jun; Vol. 42 (2), pp. 177-186. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 21.
DOI: 10.1111/bjdp.12474
Abstrakt: Older adults have even greater difficulty learning name-face associations than young adults, although many variables reflecting properties of the names have been shown to affect young and older adults' name learning similarly. Older adults' name-face association learning was compared for names with high-frequency (HF) first syllables versus names with low-frequency (LF) first syllables. Twenty-eight adults ages 65 to 80 learned five names with HF first syllables and five names with LF first syllables in association with 10 new faces over repeated testing rounds with feedback. Participants learned more name-face associations when the names had HF first syllables than LF first syllables. Findings indicate that older adults benefit from increased frequency of phonological segments within a word on a task other than word retrieval and are consistent with a theoretical framework that accounts for learning new name-face associations, the effects of linguistic properties of the names, and ageing.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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