What-where-when memory and encoding strategies in healthy aging.
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Cheke, Lucy G
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Older adults exhibit disproportionate impairments in memory for item-associations. These impairments may stem from an inability to self-initiate deep encoding strategies. The present study investigates this using the "treasure-hunt task"; a what-where-when style episodic memory test that requires individuals to "hide" items around complex scenes. This task separately assesses memory for item, location, and temporal order, as well as bound what-where-when information. The results suggest that older adults are able to ameliorate integration memory deficits by using self-initiated encoding strategies when these are externally located and therefore place reduced demands on working memory and attentional resources.
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Adult, Aged, Aging, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Episodic, Mental Recall, Middle Aged, Psychological Tests, Young Adult
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Learn Mem
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1072-0502
1549-5485
1549-5485
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23
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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This study was funded by an MRC Centenary Early Career Fellowship and a Sarah Woodhead Fellowship from Girton College, Cambridge.