Title |
A Meta-Analytic Review of Prospective Memory and Aging
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Published in |
Psychology and Aging, January 2004
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DOI | 10.1037/0882-7974.19.1.27 |
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Authors |
Julie D. Henry, Mairi S. MacLeod, Louise H. Phillips, John R. Crawford |
Abstract |
A meta-analysis of prospective memory (PM) studies revealed that in laboratory settings younger participants outperform older participants on tests of both time- and event-based PM (rs=-.39 and -.34, respectively). Event-based PM tasks that impose higher levels of controlled strategic demand are associated with significantly larger age effects than event-based PM tasks that are supported by relatively more automatic processes (rs=-.40 vs. -.14, respectively). However, contrary to the prevailing view in the literature, retrospective memory as measured by free recall is associated with significantly greater age-related decline (r=-.52) than PM, and older participants perform substantially better than their younger counterparts in naturalistic PM studies (rs=.35 and.52 for event- and time-based PM, respectively). |
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