Older adults' name-face association learning is facilitated for names with high-frequency first syllables.
Br J Dev Psychol
; 42(2): 177-186, 2024 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-38247209
ABSTRACT
Older adults have even greater difficulty learning name-face associations than young adults, although many variables reflecting properties of the names have been shown to affect young and older adults' name learning similarly. Older adults' name-face association learning was compared for names with high-frequency (HF) first syllables versus names with low-frequency (LF) first syllables. Twenty-eight adults ages 65 to 80 learned five names with HF first syllables and five names with LF first syllables in association with 10 new faces over repeated testing rounds with feedback. Participants learned more name-face associations when the names had HF first syllables than LF first syllables. Findings indicate that older adults benefit from increased frequency of phonological segments within a word on a task other than word retrieval and are consistent with a theoretical framework that accounts for learning new name-face associations, the effects of linguistic properties of the names, and ageing.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Mental Recall
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Association Learning
Type of study:
Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Br J Dev Psychol
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British journal of developmental psychology (Online)
Year:
2024
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States