Load effect on what-where-when memory in younger and older adults
| Autor: | Bernardino Fernández-Calvo, Fabiola da Silva Albuquerque, Lucy G. Cheke, Flávio Freitas Barbosa, Égina Karoline Gonçalves da Fonsêca, Joenilton Saturnino Cazé da Silva |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
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Male Aging Memory Episodic Event (relativity) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychological Tests 050105 experimental psychology Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Healthy aging Episodic memory Aged 05 social sciences Middle Aged Psychiatry and Mental health Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Mental Recall Female Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. 27:841-853 |
| ISSN: | 1744-4128 1382-5585 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13825585.2019.1700207 |
| Popis: | Episodic memory (EM) is a subsystem responsible for storing and evoking information about the "What", "Where" and "When" elements of an event in an integrated way. This capacity depends of structures with hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. The effect of aging on some capacities mediated by these areas, such as the influence of the number of objects on the coding of EM, remains unexplored. The present study examined the memory recall capacity of young and older adults in an EM task which used the number of 2, 4 and 6 items associated with specific space-temporal contexts. The young adults showed better performance coefficients than the older adults in all tasks, regardless of the load used, for all questions, except the "What" type. The group differences increase with load augmentation, stabilizing from the tasks with 4 items. In short, the EM efficiency, evaluated through What-Where-When Task, depends on the quantity information encoding. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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