Hargis Mary B, Castel Alan D
a Department of Psychology , University of California, Los Angeles , Los Angeles , CA , USA.
Memory. 2018 Sep;26(8):1151-1158. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2018.1441423. Epub 2018 Feb 21.
While older adults face various deficits in binding items in memory, they are often able to remember information that is deemed important. In Experiment 1, we examined how younger and older adults remember medication interactions of varying severity. There were no age differences in overall memory accuracy, but older adults' performance depended on the severity of the interactions (such that the interactions associated with the most severe health outcomes were remembered most accurately) while younger adults' did not. In Experiment 2, a similar task was designed to create interference in memory. Even with this more difficult task there were no age differences in recall accuracy, and both age groups remembered the interactions with the severe outcomes most accurately. These findings suggest that, under certain circumstances, older adults do not face deficits in associative recognition accuracy of information that varies in importance.
虽然老年人在记忆中绑定项目方面面临各种缺陷，但他们通常能够记住被认为重要的信息。在实验1中，我们研究了年轻人和老年人如何记住不同严重程度的药物相互作用。总体记忆准确性方面没有年龄差异，但老年人的表现取决于相互作用的严重程度（与最严重健康结果相关的相互作用记忆最准确），而年轻人则不然。在实验2中，设计了一项类似的任务来制造记忆干扰。即使是这项更具挑战性的任务，回忆准确性方面也没有年龄差异，两个年龄组都最准确地记住了与严重结果相关的相互作用。这些发现表明，在某些情况下，老年人在关联识别不同重要性信息的准确性方面并不存在缺陷。
