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No Evidence for Improved Associative Memory Performance Following Process-Based Associative Memory Training in Older Adults.
Bellander, Martin; Eschen, Anne; Lövdén, Martin; Martin, Mike; Bäckman, Lars; Brehmer, Yvonne.
Afiliação
  • Bellander M; Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Eschen A; International Normal Aging and Plasticity Center (INAPIC), University of ZurichZurich, Switzerland; University Research Priority Program "Dynamics of Healthy Aging", University of ZurichZurich, Switzerland.
  • Lövdén M; Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Martin M; International Normal Aging and Plasticity Center (INAPIC), University of ZurichZurich, Switzerland; University Research Priority Program "Dynamics of Healthy Aging", University of ZurichZurich, Switzerland; Department of Psychology, University of ZurichZurich, Switzerland.
  • Bäckman L; Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Brehmer Y; Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm UniversityStockholm, Sweden; Otto Hahn Research Group on Associative Memory in Old Age, Max Planck Institute for Human DevelopmentBerlin, Germany.
Front Aging Neurosci ; 8: 326, 2016.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28119597
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.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Tipo de estudo: Risk_factors_studies Idioma: En Revista: Front Aging Neurosci Ano de publicação: 2016 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Tipo de estudo: Risk_factors_studies Idioma: En Revista: Front Aging Neurosci Ano de publicação: 2016 Tipo de documento: Article