Age Differences in Item Recognition Memory Discrimination and Criteria: A Meta-Analysis

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Fraundorf ◽  
Kathleen Hourihan ◽  
Aaron Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Item Recognition

scholarly journals Age-Related Differences in Recall and Recognition: A Meta Analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Rhodes ◽  
Nathaniel R. Greene ◽  
Moshe Naveh-Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Free Recall ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Item Recognition ◽  
Age Difference ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Standardized Effect Sizes ◽  
Retrieval From Memory

Relative to younger adults, older adults tend to perform more poorly on tests of both free recall and item recognition memory. The age difference in performance is typically larger for recall tasks relative to those involving recognition. However, there have been reports of comparable age-related differences in free recall and item recognition performance. Further, a differential performance cost does not necessarily mean that processes involved in recall are specifically affected by age. Here we present a meta-analysis of 36 articles reporting 89 direct comparisons of free recall and item recognition in younger and older groups of participants. Standardized effect sizes reveal that age differences are larger for recall tasks (Hedges' g = 0.89, 95% confidence intervals [0.75, 1.03]) than for recognition tasks (0.54, [0.37, 0.72]). Further, Brinley analyses of the data suggest that distinct functions are needed to relate younger and older performance for the two tasks. These functions differ in intercept pointing to a disproportionate age difference in recall relative to recognition. This is in line with theories of memory and aging which posit specific deficits in processes related to search and retrieval from memory.

Tests of a model for source and item recognition memory

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Hautus ◽  
Caren M. Rotello ◽  
Neil A. MacMillan
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Item Recognition

Knowledge Mitigates Age Differences in Recognition Memory for Nutrition Information

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. S. Miller ◽  
Megan Zirnstein ◽  
Pauline K. Chan ◽  
Tanja N. Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Nutrition Information

Temporal Discounting Across Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendra Leigh Seaman ◽  
Sade J Abiodun ◽  
Zöe Fenn ◽  
Gregory Russell Samanez-Larkin ◽  
Rui Mata
Keyword(s):  
Age Differences ◽  
Intertemporal Choice ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Temporal Discounting ◽  
Total N ◽  
Adult Age ◽  
Adult Age Differences ◽  
Choice Tasks

A number of developmental theories have been proposed that make differential predictions about the links between age and temporal discounting; that is, the valuation of rewards at different points in time. Most empirical studies examining adult age differences in temporal discounting have relied on economic intertemporal choice tasks, which pit choosing a smaller, sooner monetary reward against choosing a larger, later one. Although initial studies using these tasks suggested older adults discount less than younger adults, follow-up studies provided heterogeneous, and thus inconclusive, results. Using an open science approach, we test the replicability of adult age differences in temporal discounting by conducting a preregistered systematic literature search and meta-analysis of adult age differences in intertemporal choice tasks. Across 37 cross-sectional studies (Total N = 104,736), we found no reliable relation between age and temporal discounting (r = -0.081, 95% CI [-0.185, 0.025]). We also found little evidence of publication bias or p-hacking. Exploratory analyses of moderators found no effect of experimental design (e.g., extreme-group vs. continuous age), incentives (hypothetical vs. rewards), amount of delay (e.g., days, weeks, months, or years), or quantification of discounting behavior (e.g., proportion of immediate choices vs. parameters from computational modeling). Additional analyses of 12 participant-level data sets found little support for a nonlinear relation between age and temporal discounting across adulthood. Overall, the results suggest that adult age is not reliably associated with individual differences in temporal discounting. We provide recommendations for future empirical work on temporal discounting across the adult life span.

Hippocampal, parahippocampal and occipital-temporal contributions to associative and item recognition memory: an fMRI study

Neuroreport ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. Yonelinas ◽  
J. B. Hopfinger ◽  
M. H. Buonocore ◽  
N. E. A. Kroll ◽  
K. Baynes
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Item Recognition ◽  
Fmri Study

scholarly journals Heightened Adolescent Risk-Taking? Insights From Lab Studies on Age Differences in Decision-Making

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivy N. Defoe ◽  
Judith Semon Dubas ◽  
Daniel Romer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Real World ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Risky Decision Making ◽  
Risky Decision ◽  
Neuropsychological Development ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Adolescent Risk

Surveys concur that adolescents disproportionately engage in many real-world risk behaviors, compared with children and adults. Recently researchers have employed laboratory risky decision-making tasks to replicate this apparent heightened adolescent risk-taking. This review builds on the main findings of the first meta-analysis of such age differences in risky decision-making in the laboratory. Overall, although adolescents engage in more risky decision-making than adults, adolescents engage in risky decision-making equal to children. However, adolescents take fewer risks than children on tasks that allow the option of opting out of taking a risk. To reconcile findings on age differences in risk-taking in the real-world versus the laboratory, an integrative framework merges theories on neuropsychological development with ecological models that emphasize the importance of risk exposure in explaining age differences in risk-taking. Policy insights and recent developments are discussed.

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