Kontaxopoulou Dionysia, Beratis Ion N, Fragkiadaki Stella, Pavlou Dimosthenis, Yannis George, Economou Alexandra, Papanicolaou Andrew C, Papageorgiou Sokratis G
Cognitive Disorders/Dementia Unit, 2nd Department of Neurology, University of Athens, "Attikon" University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
National Technical University of Athens, School of Civil Engineering, Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, 15780 Zografou, Athens, Greece.
Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2017 Aug 1;32(5):519-532. doi: 10.1093/arclin/acx027.
The aim of the current study was to investigate the impact of gender and age on incidental and intentional memory in healthy participants and to explore the strength of the association of incidental and intentional memory with attentional and executive functioning.
A total number of 47 participants underwent a driving simulation experiment and went through detailed neuropsychological testing. Incidental memory was assessed with a questionnaire that evaluated the memorization of information related to the driving simulator task while intentional memory was assessed using the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised and the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised.
The analysis revealed a greater impact of age on incidental as compared to intentional memory. Gender did not appear to have such an effect on either incidental or intentional memory. Finally, attentional and executive functioning were more strongly associated with incidental memory than the intentional memory measures that were utilized in the current study.
Ageing appears to affect incidental rather than intentional memory to a greater extent. In addition, attentional and executive functioning seem to play a more important role in incidental than intentional encoding and consolidation processes.
本研究旨在调查性别和年龄对健康参与者的 incidental 和 intentional 记忆的影响，并探讨 incidental 和 intentional 记忆与注意力和执行功能之间关联的强度。
共有47名参与者进行了驾驶模拟实验，并接受了详细的神经心理学测试。incidental 记忆通过一份问卷进行评估，该问卷评估了与驾驶模拟器任务相关信息的记忆情况，而 intentional 记忆则使用修订后的霍普金斯言语学习测试和修订后的简短视觉空间记忆测试进行评估。
分析显示，与 intentional 记忆相比，年龄对 incidental 记忆的影响更大。性别似乎对 incidental 或 intentional 记忆均无此类影响。最后，与本研究中使用的 intentional 记忆测量方法相比，注意力和执行功能与 incidental 记忆的关联更为紧密。
衰老似乎在更大程度上影响 incidental 记忆而非 intentional 记忆。此外，注意力和执行功能在 incidental 记忆的编码和巩固过程中似乎比在 intentional 记忆中发挥更重要的作用。
