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- Title
No Evidence for Improved Associative Memory Performance Following Process-Based Associative Memory Training in Older Adults.
- Authors
Bellander, Martin; Eschen, Anne; Lövdén, Martin; Martin, Mike; Bäckman, Lars; Brehmer, Yvonne
- Abstract
Studies attempting to improve episodic memory performance with strategy instructions and training have had limited success in older adults: their training gains are limited in comparison to those of younger adults and do not generalize to untrained tasks and contexts. This limited success has been partly attributed to age-related impairments in associative binding of information into coherent episodes. We therefore investigated potential training and transfer effects of process-based associative memory training (i.e., repeated practice). Thirty-nine older adults (Mage = 68.8) underwent 6 weeks of either adaptive associative memory training or item recognition training. Both groups improved performance in item memory, spatial memory (object-context binding) and reasoning. A disproportionate effect of associative memory training was only observed for item memory, whereas no training-related performance changes were observed for associative memory. Self-reported strategies showed no signs of spontaneous development of memory-enhancing associative memory strategies. Hence, the results do not support the hypothesis that process-based associative memory training leads to higher associative memory performance in older adults.
- Subjects
EPISODIC memory; ASSOCIATIVE memory (Psychology); OLDER people; SPATIAL memory; DISEASES in older people
- Publication
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2017, Vol 8, p1
- ISSN
1663-4365
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fnagi.2016.00326