Age-related differences in irrelevant-speech effects. |
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Authors: | Bell, Raoul Buchner, Axel Mund, Iris |
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Abstract: | Three experiments examined age-related differences in irrelevant-speech effects. Younger and older adults were required to recall short prose texts or lists of semantically related words presented visually together with distractor speech. In all experiments, older adults made more semantically related intrusion errors from the irrelevant speech than younger adults. Results of a source memory test suggested that these age-related differences in interference are most likely due to both inhibitory deficits and source-monitoring problems. The results lend partial support to the inhibition deficit theory of cognitive aging. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Keywords: | aging age differences auditory distraction prose recall semantic similarity irrelevant-speech effects cognitive aging theories inhibition deficit theory |
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