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标题：IS THERE A DEFICIT IN RECOGNITION IN OLD AGE?
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作者：Trinidad Ruiz Gallego-Largo ; Aurora G. Suengas ; Teresa Simón 等
期刊名称：Psicothema
印刷版ISSN：0214-9915
电子版ISSN：1886-144X
出版年度：2015
卷号：27
期号：1
页码：26-31
DOI：10.7334/psicothema2014.148
出版社：Cologio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado
摘要：Background: There is some debate over of the effect of aging on the ability to recognize previously processed information. The aim of the present study is to analyze, by means of different measurements, whether aging has differential effects on recall and recognition of visual and verbal materials. Method: A within-subject design was used to compare two groups of different age (younger, older) in tasks of recall and recognition of images and of the verbal descriptors exchanged in a conversation. Results: The results indicated that, unlike the recall and recognition of words, better in younger participants, the recall and recognition of images was equal in both groups, or even better in older participants when assessed by means of d´. Nevertheless, a more strict recently proposed measurement, the conditional probability for recall given recognition, yielded significant age differences in all instances. Besides, the conditional probability shows the aging changes usually found in the serial position curve: decline of the primacy effect, while maintenance of the recency effect. Conclusions: Results are explained according to the theories that postulate two components in the process of recognition (familiarity and recollection), which are independently affected by aging.
关键词：age differences; recognition; conditional probability; recall.