Effects of Aging on Memory for Presentation Modality.

Lehman, Elyse Brauch; Mellinger, Jeanne C.

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Publication Date: 1984

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Effects of Aging on Memory for Presentation Modality.

Lehman, Elyse Brauch; Mellinger, Jeanne C.

Developmental Psychology, v20 n6 p1210-17 Nov 1984

Examines evidence for the automatic processing of information about presentation modality in older adults. Younger and older adults learned a list of nouns through auditory and visual presentation modes, recalled target words, and identified the presentation modality of each word. Results suggested automatic processing for modality memory and some decrement in older adults. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Encoding (Psychology), Older Adults, Recall (Psychology), Verbal Stimuli, Visual Stimuli

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