Effects of immediate feedback and errorless learning on recognition memory processing in young and older adults
| Autor: | Luisa da Silva, Alan Sunderland |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Aging Time Factors Feedback Psychological Neuropsychological Tests Developmental psychology Young Adult Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) medicine Humans Learning Memory impairment Memory disorder Applied Psychology Aged Recognition memory Aged 80 and over Recall Memoria Rehabilitation Recognition Psychology Cognition Training effect Middle Aged medicine.disease Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Pattern Recognition Visual Face Errorless learning Psychology Photic Stimulation Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 20:42-58 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0694 0960-2011 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09602010903036731 |
| Popis: | Age-related memory decline appears to be due to impaired recollection whereas familiarity may be intact. An intervention was therefore designed with the aim of optimising use of this intact sense of familiarity. A continuous face recognition paradigm was used which required detection of repeats in a long series. The experimental intervention consisted of immediate feedback on response accuracy and avoidance of errors by discouraging guessing. Experimental and control interventions were compared by recruiting 40 people aged under 30 years or over 60 years for six 45-minute training sessions. The elderly participants initially showed a more lax response criterion than young people but the experimental intervention reversed this effect so that by the end of training the elderly participants were less prone to false alarms than the younger participants. However, there was only limited evidence of generalisation of this training effect to other memory tasks and no effect on recognition sensitivity. This study demonstrates that combined feedback and errorless learning allow elderly people to adjust their response criterion during recognition memory tasks. Taken together with previous encouraging studies, it seems that this training approach might have potential as a therapy for age-related memory impairment. However this would require development of additional methods to enhance generalisation beyond trained tasks and to elicit improvements in sensitivity as well as reduction of false alarms. The separate contributions of feedback and errorless learning also need to be investigated. |
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