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PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 826-830Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.4.826
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implicit memory; word fragment completion; aging; distraction
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The authors investigated the effect of age and time of testing on the ability to control attention and addressed the possibility that older adults' susceptibility to distraction may sometimes facilitate performance on a later cognitive task. Using a modification of a G. Rees, C. Russell, C. D. Frith, and J. Driver (1999) procedure, the authors asked the participants to make same or different judgments on line drawings superimposed with task-irrelevant letter strings. Memory for the distractors was subsequently tested with an implicit memory task. Both older and young adults demonstrated greater memory for distractors at nonoptimal times of day than at optimal times of day; however, older adults showed considerably better memory for the distractors than did young adults.
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