Drury J L, Kinsella G J, Ong B
School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
Neuropsychology. 2000 Jan;14(1):93-101.
In the present study, the authors examined age effects in memory for nonverbal material. A picture fragment completion task was used to test explicit and implicit memory in a younger and an older group. Explicit memory was indexed by free recall of pictures, whereas implicit memory was indexed by perceptual learning (priming). Both free recall and perceptual learning performance were found to be impaired in the older group. A measure of executive functioning was found to be predictive of both explicit and implicit memory.
在本研究中，作者考察了非言语材料记忆中的年龄效应。使用图片片段完成任务对年轻组和年长组的外显记忆和内隐记忆进行测试。外显记忆通过对图片的自由回忆来衡量，而内隐记忆通过知觉学习（启动效应）来衡量。结果发现，年长组的自由回忆和知觉学习表现均受损。研究还发现，执行功能的一项指标能够预测外显记忆和内隐记忆。
