The development of explicit memory for basic perceptual features
| Autor: | Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Marcia K. Johnson, Aurora Vieira, Kristin Hartshorn, Barbara L. Chalfonte, Michelle Gulya, Alba Rossi-George |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Male Aging Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Task (project management) Developmental psychology Memory development Visual memory Memory Developmental and Educational Psychology Feature (machine learning) Explicit memory Humans Attention Child Recognition memory Aged Aged 80 and over Cognition Recognition Psychology Child Preschool Female Perception Implicit memory Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of experimental child psychology. 81(3) |
| ISSN: | 0022-0965 |
| Popis: | In three experiments with 164 individuals between 4 and 80 years old, we examined age-related changes in explicit memory for three perceptual features—item identity, color, and location. In Experiments 1–2, feature recognition was assessed in an incidental learning, gamelike task resembling the game Concentration. In Experiment 3, feature recognition was assessed using a pencil-and-paper task after intentional learning instructions. The form of the explicit memory function across the life span varied with the particular perceptual feature tested and the type of task. Item recognition was excellent at all ages but was significantly poorer for older adults than children, color recognition peaked in late childhood on the gamelike task, and location recognition peaked in early adulthood on the pencil-and-paper task. These findings indicate that performance on explicit memory tests is not a consistent inverted U-shaped function of age across various features. Explicit memory performance depends on what is measured and how. Because explicit memory typically reflects a composite of different features, age-related changes in explicit memory will not necessarily correspond to the function for any single one. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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