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Much attention has been paid to the distinction between prospective and retrospective memory in recent years. Hierarchical regression analyses have been conducted to study relationships among age, ability level working memory, individual differences and prospective and retrospective memory. It was found that the predictor variables contributed little to prospective performance, with ability level, working memory and recognition accounting for less than 6% each of the variance. It is implied that both ability level and continuous measures of ability represent a small but significant proportion of variance in prospective memory.
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Aging is linked to declines in cognitive function. A study examined whether the magnitude of age differences in memory for story content and source information would alter as a function of media format. The relationships of age and basic measures of processing resources to memory for news, were also studied for change. The study confirmed that sensory functioning and processing speed account for variances related to age in remembering news.
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Even-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in young and older adults during a recognition memory assessment of episodic priming. Both young and older adults exhibited equivalent episodic priming effects, but older adults exhibited a greater source performance decrement than item memory performance decrement. Only the young showed a frontal-maximal, late onset old-new effect, differing as a function of subsequent list attribution.
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