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Dissociations between procedural and episodic memory: Effects of time and aging.

Mitchell, David B., Brown, Alan S., Murphy, Dana R.·1990·Psychology and Aging

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The issue of multiple memory systems is explored. Young and older adults (mean ages = 20 and 71, respectively) named pictures and were tested immediately, 1, 7, or 21 days later. Episodic memory (recognition) for pictures was significantly lower in older relative to young adults and declined systematically across all retention intervals in both age groups. In contrast, procedural memory (repetition priming in picture naming) revealed no reliable age differences. In both age groups, priming declined within the first 24 hr, but unlike recognition, there was no further decrement from 1 to 21 days. There were also within-subject dissociations: The magnitude of priming was equivalent for remembered and forgotten items, and the relation between recognition and priming across intervals was nonmonotic, revealing a reversed association. The findings were interpreted within a multiple-memory-systems framework.

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  • This pattern is typical of human episodic memory, with performance deteriorating with increases in the retention interval.

    “This pattern is typical of human episodic memory, both in real-life episodic remembering as well as that observed experimentally, with performance in tasks deteriorating with increases in the retention interval [149,150]”

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Authors
Mitchell, D. B., Brown, A. S., & Murphy, D. R.
Affiliations
Southern Methodist University (US)
Venue
Psychology and Aging
Published
1990
Volume
5
Issue
2
Pages
264-276
ISSN
  • 0882-7974 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1498
OpenAlex
W2085419098
Cited by
124
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FWCI
3.53
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Psychology and Aging (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5r29ag007854-05)
  • National Institute on Aging (5-R29-AG07854)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Keywords
procedural memory, episodic memory, multiple memory systems, aging, recognition memory, repetition priming, picture naming, retention interval, forgetting, older adults, memory dissociation
MeSH terms
Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Aging, Association, Humans, Memory, Mental Recall, Retention, Psychology, Time Factors

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