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PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 467-472Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.23.2.467
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associative memory; action memory; aging; person memory
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The associative deficit hypothesis (M. Naveh-Benjamin, 2000) attributes age-related memory deficits to the inability to encode and retrieve bound units of information. The present experiment extended this deficit to a new form of stimuli, dynamic displays of people and their performance of everyday actions. Older and younger adults viewed a series of brief video clips, each showing a different person performing a different action, and were tested over memory for individual people, individual actions, and the person-action combinations. Older adults did exhibit an associative deficit, and this was related to an increased proportion of false alarms on the associative test.
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