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JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Volume 60, Issue 5, Pages P223-P233Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/60.5.P223
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [R56AG016201, R01AG016201] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIA NIH HHS [AG-16201] Funding Source: Medline
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Using Brinley plots, this meta-analysis provides a quantitative examination of age differences in eight verbal span tasks. The main conclusions are these: (a) there are age differences in all verbal span tasks; (b) the data support the conclusion that working memory span is more age sensitive than short-term memory span; and (c) there is a linear relationship between span of younger adults and span of older adults. A linear model indicates the presence of three distinct functions, in increasing order of size of age effects: simple storage span; backward digit span; and working memory span.
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