Temporal coding and study-phase retrieval in young and elderly adults

Abstract

It follows from the study-phase retrieval model of Tzeng and Cotton (1980) that age differences favoring young over elderly subjects should be revealed in a recency-judgment task. It may also be predicted from their “availability-principle” notion that the two sets of age functions relating accuracy of recency judgments to distance between test items (lag) will be parallel. Young and elderly females made recency judgments at lags of 0, 12, 24, and 36 intervening items. Performance improved as a function of lag, the young were more accurate than the elderly, and the two sets of lag functions were parallel. © 1982, The psychonomic Society, Inc.. All rights reserved.