Publication Cover
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition
A Journal on Normal and Dysfunctional Development
Volume 22, 2015 - Issue 6
767
Views
12
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Adult age differences in memory for schema-consistent and schema-inconsistent objects in a real-world setting

Pages 731-754 | Received 26 Sep 2014, Accepted 31 Mar 2015, Published online: 27 Apr 2015

References

  • Badham, S. P., & Maylor, E. A. (2013). Age-related associative deficits and the isolation effect. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 20, 405–428. doi:10.1080/13825585.2012.725460
  • Bireta, T. J., Surprenant, A. M., & Neath, I. (2008). Age-related differences in the von Restorff isolation effect. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 345–352. doi:10.1080/17470210701626608
  • Black, S. R., McCown, S., Lookadoo, R. L., Leonard, R. C., Kelley, M., DeCoster, J., … Spence, S. A. (2012). Aging, imagery, and the bizarreness effect. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 19, 566–591. doi:10.1080/13825585.2011.639868
  • Bower, G. H., Black, J. B., & Turner, T. J. (1979). Scripts in memory for text. Cognitive Psychology, 11, 177–220. doi:10.1016/0010-0285(79)90009-4
  • Brewer, W. F., & Treyens, J. C. (1981). Role of schemata in memory for places. Cognitive Psychology, 13, 207–230. doi:10.1016/0010-0285(81)90008-6
  • Carr, V. A., Castel, A. D., & Knowlton, B. J. (2015). Age-related differences in memory after attending to distinctiveness or similarity during learning. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 22, 155–169.
  • Cimbalo, R. S., & Brink, L. (1982). Aging and the von Restorff isolation effect in short/term memory. The Journal of General Psychology, 106, 69–76. doi:10.1080/00221309.1982.9710974
  • Comblain, C., D’Argembeau, A., Van der Linden, M., & Aldenhoff, L. (2004). The effect of ageing on the recollection of emotional and neutral pictures. Memory, 12, 673–684. doi:10.1080/09658210344000477
  • Craik, F. I. M. (1983). On the transfer of information from temporary to permanent memory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 302, 341–359. doi:10.1098/rstb.1983.0059
  • Craik, F. I. M. (1986). A functional account of age differences in memory. In F. Klix & H. Hagendorf (Eds.), Human memory and cognitive capabilities: Mechanisms and performances (pp. 409–422). North-Holland: Elsevier.
  • Craik, F. I. M., & Byrd, M. (1982). Aging and cognitive deficits: The role of attentional resources. In F. I. M. Craik & S. Trehub (Eds.), Aging and cognitive processes (pp. 191–211). New York, NY: Plenum.
  • Danckert, S. L., & Craik, F. I. M. (2013). Does aging affect recall more than recognition memory? Psychology and Aging, 28, 902–909. doi:10.1037/a0033263
  • Dennis, N. A., & Cabeza, R. (2008). Neuroimaging of healthy cognitive aging. In: F. I. M. Craik & T. A. Salthouse (Eds.), Handbook of aging and cognition (3rd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Dodson, C. S., & Schacter, D. L. (2002). Aging and strategic retrieval processes: Reducing false memories with a distinctiveness heuristic. Psychology and Aging, 17, 405–415. doi:10.1037/0882-7974.17.3.405
  • Duarte, A., Graham, K. S., & Henson, R. N. (2010). Age-related changes in neural activity associated with familiarity, recollection and false recognition. Neurobiology of Aging, 31, 1814–1830. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2008.09.014
  • Faul, F., Erdfelder, E., Lang, A.-G., & Buchner, A. (2007). G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 175–191. doi:10.3758/BF03193146
  • Folstein, M. F., Folstein, S. E., & McHugh, P. R. (1975). ‘Mini-mental state’. A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 12, 189–198. doi:10.1016/0022-3956(75)90026-6
  • Friedman, A. (1979). Framing pictures: The role of knowledge in automatized encoding and memory for gist. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 108, 316–355. doi:10.1037/0096-3445.108.3.316
  • Gallo, D. A., Cotel, S. C., Moore, C. D., & Schacter, D. L. (2007). Aging can spare recollection-based retrieval monitoring: The importance of event distinctiveness. Psychology and Aging, 22, 209–213. doi:10.1037/0882-7974.22.1.209
  • Geraci, L., McDaniel, M. A., Manzano, I., & Roediger, H. L. (2009). The influence of age on memory for distinctive events. Memory and Cognition, 37, 175–180. doi:10.3758/MC.37.2.175
  • Gounden, Y., & Nicolas, S. (2012). Ageing and secondary-distinctiveness-based effects: The orthographic distinctiveness effect is more robust than the bizarreness effect. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 1820–1832. doi:10.1080/17470218.2012.673630
  • Graesser, A. C., Gordon, S. E., & Sawyer, J. D. (1979). Recognition memory for typical and atypical actions in scripted activities: Tests of a script pointer + tag hypothesis. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 18, 319–322. doi:10.1016/S0022-5371(79)90182-8
  • Graesser, A. C., & Nakamura, G. V. (1982). The impact of a schema on comprehension and memory. In G. H. Bower (Ed.), Psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 16, pp. 59–109). New York, NY: Academic Press.
  • Hamami, A., Serbun, S. J., & Gutchess, A. H. (2011). Self-referencing enhances memory specificity with age. Psychology and Aging, 26, 636–646. doi:10.1037/a0022626
  • Hess, T. M. (1985). Aging and context influences on recognition memory for typical and atypical script actions. Developmental Psychology, 21, 1139–1151. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.21.6.1139
  • Hess, T. M., Donley, J., & Vandermaas, M. O. (1989). Aging-related changes in the processing and retention of script information. Experimental Aging Research, 15, 89–96.
  • Hess, T. M., & Slaughter, S. J. (1990). Schematic knowledge influences on memory for scene information in young and older adults. Developmental Psychology, 26, 855–865. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.26.5.855
  • Hunt, R. R. (2006). The concept of distinctiveness in memory research. In R. R. Hunt & J. B. Worthen (Eds.), Distinctiveness and memory (pp. 1–25). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Hunt, R. R. (2013). Precision in memory through distinctive processing. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22, 10–15. doi:10.1177/0963721412463228
  • Kensinger, E. A., Garoff-Eaton, R. J., & Schacter, D. L. (2007). Effects of emotion on memory specificity in young and older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 62B, 208–215. doi:10.1093/geronb/62.4.P208
  • Kirchhoff, B. A., Wagner, A. D., Maril, A., & Stern, C. E. (2000). Prefrontal-temporal circuitry for episodic encoding and subsequent memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 20, 6173–6180.
  • Kishiyama, M. M., Yonelinas, A. P., & Lazzara, M. M. (2004). The von Restorff effect in amnesia: The contribution of the hippocampal system to novelty-related memory enhancements. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 15–23. doi:10.1162/089892904322755511
  • Koen, J. D., & Yonelinas, A. P. (2014). The effects of healthy aging, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease on recollection and familiarity: A meta-analytic review. Neuropsychology Review, 24, 332–354.
  • Koutstaal, W. (2003). Older adults encode—but do not always use—perceptual details: Intentional versus unintentional effects of detail on memory judgments. Psychological Science, 14, 189–193. doi:10.1111/psci.2003.14.issue-2
  • Koutstaal, W., Reddy, C., Jackson, E. M., Prince, S., Cendan, D. L., & Schacter, D. L. (2003). False recognition of abstract versus common objects in older and younger adults: Testing the semantic categorization account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 499–510.
  • Koutstaal, W., Schacter, D. L., Galluccio, L., & Stofer, K. A. (1999). Reducing gist-based false recognition in older adults: Encoding and retrieval manipulations. Psychology and Aging, 14, 220–237. doi:10.1037/0882-7974.14.2.220
  • Lampinen, J. M., Copeland, S. M., & Neuschatz, J. S. (2001). Recollections of things schematic: Room schemas revisited. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 1211–1222.
  • Light, L. L., & Anderson, P. A. (1983). Memory for scripts in young and older adults. Memory and Cognition, 11, 435–444. doi:10.3758/BF03196980
  • Light, L. L., Kayra-Stuart, F., & Hollander, S. (1979). Recognition memory for typical and unusual faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 5, 212–228.
  • Lin, O. Y. H., & MacLeod, C. M. (2012). Aging and the production effect: A test of the distinctiveness account. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Expérimentale, 66, 212–216. doi:10.1037/a0028309
  • Loftus, G. R., & Mackworth, N. H. (1978). Cognitive determinants of fixation location during picture viewing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 4, 565–572.
  • Mäntylä, T., & Bäckman, L. (1992). Aging and memory for expected and unexpected objects in real-world settings. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 1298–1309.
  • Mather, M., Johnson, M. K., & DeLeonardis, D. M. (1999). Stereotype reliance in source monitoring: Age differences and neuropsychological test correlates. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 437–458. doi:10.1080/026432999380870
  • McCabe, D. P., Roediger, H. L., McDaniel, M. A., & Balota, D. A. (2009). Aging reduces veridical remembering but increases false remembering: Neuropsychological test correlates of remember–know judgments. Neuropsychologia, 47, 2164–2173. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.11.025
  • Naveh-Benjamin, M. (2000). Adult age differences in memory performance: Tests of an associative deficit hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 26, 1170–1187.
  • Nelson, M. J., & Denny, E. C. (1960). The Nelson-Denny reading test (revised by James I. Brown). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
  • Nicolas, S., & Worthen, J. B. (2009). Adult age differences in memory for distinctive information: Evidence from the bizarreness effect. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1983–1990. doi:10.1080/17470210902725738
  • Norman, K. A., & Schacter, D. L. (1997). False recognition in younger and older adults: Exploring the characteristics of illusory memories. Memory and Cognition, 25, 838–848. doi:10.3758/BF03211328
  • Ozubko, J. D., & MacLeod, C. M. (2010). The production effect in memory: Evidence that distinctiveness underlies the benefit. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 1543–1547.
  • Park, D. C., Puglisi, J. T., & Smith, A. D. (1986). Memory for pictures: Does an age-related decline exist? Psychology and Aging, 1, 11–17. doi:10.1037/0882-7974.1.1.11
  • Parks, C. M. (2007). The role of noncriterial recollection in estimating recollection and familiarity. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 81–100. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2007.03.003
  • Pezdek, K., Whetstone, T., Reynolds, K., Askari, N., & Dougherty, T. (1989). Memory for real-world scenes: The role of consistency with schema expectation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 587–595.
  • Qin, X., Bochsler, T. M., Aizpurua, A., Cheong, A. M. Y., Koutstaal, W., & Legge, G. E. (2014). Incidental memory of younger and older adults for objects encountered in a real world context. PLoS ONE, 9, e99051. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099051
  • Rabinowitz, J. C., Craik, F. I. M., & Ackerman, B. P. (1982). A processing resource account of age differences in recall. Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue Canadienne De Psychologie, 36, 325–344. doi:10.1037/h0080643
  • Rusted, J., Gaskell, M., Watts, S., & Sheppard, L. (2000). People with dementia use schemata to support episodic memory. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 11, 350–356. doi:10.1159/000017265
  • Salmaso, P., Baroni, M. R., Job, R., & Mainardi Peron, E. (1983). Schematic information, attention, and memory for places. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 9, 263–268.
  • Schacter, D. L., Israel, L., & Racine, C. (1999). Suppressing false recognition in younger and older adults: The distinctiveness heuristic. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 1–24. doi:10.1006/jmla.1998.2611
  • Schank, R. C. (1999). Dynamic memory revisited. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Smith, A. (1991). Symbol digit modalities test. Los Angeles, CA: Western Psychological Services.
  • Smith, R. E. (2006). Adult age differences in episodic memory: Item-specific, relational, and distinctive processing. In R. R. Hunt & J. B. Worthen (Eds.), Distinctiveness and memory (pp. 259–287). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Smith, R. E. (2011). Providing support for distinctive processing: The isolation effect in young and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 26, 744–751. doi:10.1037/a0022715
  • Smith, R. E., Lozito, J. P., & Bayen, U. J. (2005). Adult age differences in distinctive processing: The modality effect on false recall. Psychology and Aging, 20, 486–492. doi:10.1037/0882-7974.20.3.486
  • Snodgrass, J. G., & Corwin, J. (1988). Pragmatics of measuring recognition memory: Applications to dementia and amnesia. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 117, 34–50. doi:10.1037/0096-3445.117.1.34
  • Stangor, C., & McMillan, D. (1992). Memory for expectancy-congruent and expectancy-incongruent information: A review of the social and social developmental literatures. Psychological Bulletin, 111, 42–61. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.111.1.42
  • Umanath, S., & Marsh, E. J. (2014). Understanding how prior knowledge influences memory in older adults. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 408–426. doi:10.1177/1745691614535933
  • Van Kesteren, M. T. R., Beul, S. F., Takashima, A., Henson, R. N., Ruiter, D. J., & Fernández, G. (2013). Differential roles for medial prefrontal and medial temporal cortices in schema-dependent encoding: From congruent to incongruent. Neuropsychologia, 51, 2352–2359. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.05.027
  • Van Kesteren, M. T. R., Ruiter, D. J., Fernández, G., & Henson, R. N. (2012). How schema and novelty augment memory formation. Trends in Neurosciences, 35, 211–219. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2012.02.001
  • Vitali, P., Minati, L., Chiarenza, G., Brugnolo, A., Girtler, N., Nobili, F., … Rodriguez, G. (2006). The von Restorff effect in ageing and Alzheimer’s disease. Neurological Sciences, 27, 166–172. doi:10.1007/s10072-006-0662-3

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.