Recollection Training and Transfer Effects in Older Adults: Successful Use of a Repetition-Lag Procedure

Authors: Jennings, Janine; Webster, Lauren; Kleykamp, Bethea; Dagenbach, Dale

Source: Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition (Neuropsychology, Development and Cogniti, Volume 12, Number 3, September 2005 , pp. 278-298(21)

Publisher: Psychology Press, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

We examined an approach aimed at training consciously-controlled recollection, introduced by Jennings and Jacoby (2003), for its ability to replicate and generalize. A continuous recognition task, requiring recollection to identify the occurrence of repeated items over gradually increasing lag intervals (number of intervening items between the first and second presentation of a repeated word), was given to a group of older adults twice a week for three weeks. Pre-and-post training performance was assessed on multiple measures and compared with a recognition practice and no contact control group. Recollection training proved successful; accurate identification of repeated items increased across a lag interval of 2 to 18 intervening items. Post-training gains following recollection training were found on n-back, self-ordered pointing, source discrimination and digit symbol substitution, but not with reading span or the CVLT-II. No changes were identified in the other groups. Gains from recollection training seem to transfer successfully in older adults.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/138255890968312

Affiliations: 1: Wake Forest University

Publication date: 2005-09-01