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A Meta-Analytic Review of Prospective Memory and Aging

Overview of attention for article published in Psychology and Aging, January 2004
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Title
A Meta-Analytic Review of Prospective Memory and Aging
Published in
Psychology and Aging, January 2004
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).

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 10 3%
United Kingdom 8 2%
Canada 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
India 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 330 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 78 22%
Student > Master 58 16%
Student > Bachelor 42 12%
Researcher 41 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 6%
Other 69 19%
Unknown 52 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 213 59%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 5%
Neuroscience 17 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 3%
Social Sciences 8 2%
Other 33 9%
Unknown 63 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 July 2021.
All research outputs
#2,863,908
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Psychology and Aging
#248
of 1,249 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,773
of 143,821 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychology and Aging
#4
of 19 outputs
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