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Direct linkMcKoon, Gail; Ratcliff, Roger – Journal of Memory and Language, 2013
In the domain of discourse processing, it has been claimed that older adults (60-0-year-olds) are less likely to encode and remember some kinds of information from texts than young adults. The experiment described here shows that they do make a particular kind of inference to the same extent that college-age adults do. The inferences examined were…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Theory Practice Relationship, Young Adults, Inferences
Ratcliff, Roger; Thapar, Anjali; McKoon, Gail – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
The effects of aging on response time were examined in a recognition memory experiment with young, college age subjects and older, 60-75 year old subjects. The older subjects were slower than the young subjects but almost as accurate. Ratcliff's (1978) diffusion model was fit to the data and it provided a good account of response times, their…
Descriptors: Recognition (Psychology), Aging (Individuals), Reaction Time, College Students
