دورية أكاديمية
Incidental memory of younger and older adults for objects encountered in a real world context.
| العنوان: | Incidental memory of younger and older adults for objects encountered in a real world context. |
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| المؤلفون: | Xiaoyan Qin, Tiana M Bochsler, Alaitz Aizpurua, Allen M Y Cheong, Wilma Koutstaal, Gordon E Legge |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 6, p e99051 (2014) |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine, Science |
| الوصف: | Effects of context on the perception of, and incidental memory for, real-world objects have predominantly been investigated in younger individuals, under conditions involving a single static viewpoint. We examined the effects of prior object context and object familiarity on both older and younger adults' incidental memory for real objects encountered while they traversed a conference room. Recognition memory for context-typical and context-atypical objects was compared with a third group of unfamiliar objects that were not readily named and that had no strongly associated context. Both older and younger adults demonstrated a typicality effect, showing significantly lower 2-alternative-forced-choice recognition of context-typical than context-atypical objects; for these objects, the recognition of older adults either significantly exceeded, or numerically surpassed, that of younger adults. Testing-awareness elevated recognition but did not interact with age or with object type. Older adults showed significantly higher recognition for context-atypical objects than for unfamiliar objects that had no prior strongly associated context. The observation of a typicality effect in both age groups is consistent with preserved semantic schemata processing in aging. The incidental recognition advantage of older over younger adults for the context-typical and context-atypical objects may reflect aging-related differences in goal-related processing, with older adults under comparatively more novel circumstances being more likely to direct their attention to the external environment, or age-related differences in top-down effortful distraction regulation, with older individuals' attention more readily captured by salient objects in the environment. Older adults' reduced recognition of unfamiliar objects compared to context-atypical objects may reflect possible age differences in contextually driven expectancy violations. The latter finding underscores the theoretical and methodological value of including a third type of objects--that are comparatively neutral with respect to their contextual associations--to help differentiate between contextual integration effects (for schema-consistent objects) and expectancy violations (for schema-inconsistent objects). |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| العلاقة: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4062423?pdf=renderTest; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Test |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0099051 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://doaj.org/article/3407e60fdf774b80926706082247acbbTest |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.3407e60fdf774b80926706082247acbb |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 19326203 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0099051 |