Acting or listening: Adult age differences in source recall of enacted and nonenacted statements

Author(s): Mantyla, T., Ronnlund, M.

Journal/Book: J Adult Development. 1996; 3: 233 Spring St, New York, NY 10013. Plenum Publ Corp. 217-232.

Abstract: This study explored age-related differences in item and source recall of enacted and nonenacted items in a sample of healthy adults between the ages of 35 and 80 years (N = 1,000). Participants were screened on a variety of demographic, psychometric, and biological variables. They were presented with sentences (e.g., ''Lift the book'') that they either read or enacted. They were then asked to recall the object of each stimulus sentence (item recall) and to identify its format of encoding (source recall). Age-related decrements were observed both in item and source memory, although age differences in source memory were more accentuated than in item memory. Further, the results indicated an overall impairment of source memory across age when individual differences in the demographic, psychometric, and biological variables were taken into consideration.

Note: Article Erngrund K, Umea Univ, Dept Psychol, S-90187 Umea, SWEDEN

Keyword(s): cognitive aging; source memory; enactment; FRONTAL-LOBE DYSFUNCTION; MINI-MENTAL-STATE; ACTION EVENTS; SOURCE MEMORY; LIFE EVENTS; FALSE FAME; INTENTIONAL USES; SOURCE AMNESIA; INFORMATION; DEPRESSION

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