Nicolas Serge, Worthen James B
Université Paris Descartes, 92774 Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2009 Oct;62(10):1983-90. doi: 10.1080/17470210902725738. Epub 2009 Mar 9.
Two experiments examined age-related differences in memory for bizarre and common pictures. In Experiment 1, a facilitative effect of bizarreness was obtained for young adults and one of the older groups, but not for the oldest group (over age 70). However, the bizarreness effect was found for even the oldest group when predominantly common lists were used in Experiment 2. It is concluded that older adults suffer from deficits in distinctive processing, but those deficits can be reduced by providing a more uniformly common context in which differences can be processed.
两项实验研究了对奇异图片和普通图片的记忆中与年龄相关的差异。在实验1中，奇异效应在年轻人和其中一组年长者中得到了验证，但在年龄最大的组（70岁以上）中未得到验证。然而，在实验2中，当主要使用普通图片列表时，即使是年龄最大的组也发现了奇异效应。研究得出结论，老年人在独特加工方面存在缺陷，但通过提供一个差异能够得到处理的更统一的普通情境，这些缺陷可以得到减少。
