TY - JOUR

T1 - Stronger evidence for own-age effects in memory for older as compared to younger adults.

AU - Freund, Alexandra M

AU - Kourilova, Sylvie

AU - Kuhl, Poldi

PY - 2011/7/25

Y1 - 2011/7/25

N2 - Three studies examined whether younger and older adults better recall information associated with their own than information related to another age group. All studies compared young and older adults with respect to incidental memory for previously presented stimuli (Studies 1 and 2: everyday objects; Study 3: vacation advertisements) that had been randomly paired with an age-related cue (e.g., photo of a young or an old person; the word "young" or "old"). All three studies found the expected interaction of participants' age and age-associated information. Studies 1 and 2 showed that the memory bias for information arbitrarily associated with one's own as compared to another age group was significant for older adults only. However, when age-relevance was introduced in a context of equal importance to younger and older adults (information about vacations paired either with pictures of young or older adults), the memory bias for one's own age group was clearly present for both younger and older adults (Study 3).

AB - Three studies examined whether younger and older adults better recall information associated with their own than information related to another age group. All studies compared young and older adults with respect to incidental memory for previously presented stimuli (Studies 1 and 2: everyday objects; Study 3: vacation advertisements) that had been randomly paired with an age-related cue (e.g., photo of a young or an old person; the word "young" or "old"). All three studies found the expected interaction of participants' age and age-associated information. Studies 1 and 2 showed that the memory bias for information arbitrarily associated with one's own as compared to another age group was significant for older adults only. However, when age-relevance was introduced in a context of equal importance to younger and older adults (information about vacations paired either with pictures of young or older adults), the memory bias for one's own age group was clearly present for both younger and older adults (Study 3).

KW - age relevance

KW - ageing

KW - memory bias

KW - own-age effect

KW - Empirical education research

KW - Educational science

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/research/stronger-evidence-ownage-effects-memory-older-compared-younger-adults/

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80052141232&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/09658211.2011.583929

DO - 10.1080/09658211.2011.583929

M3 - Journal articles

C2 - 21780989

VL - 19

SP - 429

EP - 448

JO - Memory

JF - Memory

SN - 0965-8211

IS - 5

ER -