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Improving memory performance in the aged through mnemonic training: A meta-analytic study.
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The effectiveness of memory training for the elderly was examined through a meta-analysis of pre-to-posttest gains on episodic memory tasks in healthy subjects aged 60 or above. Pre-to-posttest gains were found to be significantly larger in training groups (0.73 SD, k = 49) than in both control (0.38 SD, k = 10) and placebo (0.37 SD, k = 8) groups. Treatment gains in training groups were negatively affected by age of participants and duration of training sessions and positively affected by group treatment, pretraining, and memory-related interventions. No differences in treatment gain were obtained as a function of type of mnemonic taught nor the kind of pretraining used.
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“In fact, there are a number of earlier studies supporting this account, most of them from the field of memory strategy training, for instance by means of the method of loci (e.g., Björklund and Douglas, 1997; Brehmer et al., 2007; see Verhaeghen et al., 1992 for a meta-analysis).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Verhaeghen, P., Marcoen, A., & Goossens, L.
- Affiliations
- UCLouvain (BE)
- Venue
- Psychology and Aging
- Published
- 1992
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 242-251
- ISSN
- 0882-7974 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1498
- OpenAlex
- W2000804359
- Cited by
- 601
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychology and Aging (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Keywords
- memory training, mnemonic training, episodic memory, older adults, aging, cognitive training, pre-training, group training, training duration, age effects
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aging, Humans, Individuality, Practice, Psychological, Mental Recall, Retention, Psychology, Meta-Analysis as Topic
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