Retrieval Practice Improves Recollection-Based Memory Over a Seven-Day Period in Younger and Older Adults.

ABSTRACT: Retrieving information improves subsequent memory performance more strongly than restudying. However, despite recent evidence for this retrieval practice effect (RPE), the temporal dynamics, age-related changes, and their possible interactions remain unclear. Therefore, we tested 45 young (18-30 years) and 41 older (50 + years) participants with a previously established RP paradigm. Specifically, subjects retrieved and restudied scene images on Day 1; subsequently, their recognition memory for the presented items was tested on the same day of learning and 7 days later using a remember/know paradigm. As main findings we can show that both young and older adults benefited from RP, however, the older participants benefited to a lesser extent. Importantly, the RPE was present immediately after

SUBMITTER: Guran CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6990689 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature