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PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 617-625Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.19.4.617
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- NIA NIH HHS [P30AG10161, R29AG13018, R01AG17133] Funding Source: Medline
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Decline in explicit mentory with advancing age is a common finding, but it is unclear whether implicit memory (repetition printing) declines or remains stable. Meta-analyses of studies that examined differences between extreme groups (young-old), typically at a single point in time and on a single test, suggest that a mild reduction in priming occurs with advancing age. The authors examined explicit memory and priming, on multiple tests over 4 annual data-collection waves, in a large group of older persons without dementia at baseline. Explicit memory declined significantly, but priming remained stable. Findings indicate that explicit memory and priming are dissociable on the basis of age-related change and that mildly reduced priming is not an inevitable consequence of growing older.
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