Overman Amy A, Becker James T
Department of Psychology and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Psychol Aging. 2009 Jun;24(2):501-6. doi: 10.1037/a0015086.
This study used a novel experimental paradigm that combined associative recognition and list discrimination to study the associative deficit in older adults' memory (M. Naveh-Benjamin, 2000). Participants viewed 2 lists of word-face pairs and were tested on recognition of pairs from the second study list. Older and young adults' recognition was increased by repetition of individual items, but repetition of pairs of items increased recognition in young adults only. This provides converging evidence that older adults do not form associative links between items within pairs and supports the hypothesis that an associative deficit contributes to age-related memory decline.
本研究采用了一种新颖的实验范式，该范式将联想识别和列表辨别相结合，以研究老年人记忆中的联想缺陷（M. 纳韦 - 本杰明，2000年）。参与者观看了两列表的单词 - 面孔对，并对来自第二个学习列表中的对进行识别测试。个体项目的重复提高了老年人和年轻人的识别率，但项目对的重复仅提高了年轻人的识别率。这提供了越来越多的证据，表明老年人在配对项目之间不会形成联想联系，并支持了联想缺陷导致与年龄相关的记忆衰退这一假设。
