Baseline Performance and Learning Rate of Procedural and Declarative Memory Tasks

Younger Versus Older Adults

Bibliographic Data

ID12442765
AuthorsEli Vakil (0000-0003-4715-8828, Bar-Ilan University, corresponding author), D Agmon-Ashkenazi (Bar-Ilan University)
Year1997
Volume52B
Issue5
PagesP229-P234
Publication date1997-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journals of Gerontology Series B (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1079-5014 • E-ISSN: 1758-5368
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/geronb/52b.5.p229
PMID9310091
OpenAlexW2104746783
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited1

Twenty-five older and 25 younger adults were compared on declarative (i.e., Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test and Visual Pair Associations) and procedural (i.e., Tower of Hanoi puzzle and Porteus mazes) learning tasks. A dissociation between learning rate on declarative and procedural tasks was demonstrated for the elderly participants. The younger group showed a steeper learning rate than the older group on the declarative tasks. By contrast, the learning rate of both groups on the procedural tasks did not differ consistently, whether the measure was number of errors/moves or time elapsed (with one exception in which the older group showed a steeper learning rate than the younger group). The younger group's baseline performance was better than that of the older group on all tasks employed in this study. These results reinforce the importance of distinguishing between baseline performance and the rate of learning on procedural learning tasks

Baseline (sea · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Declarative memory · Developmental psychology · Dissociation (chemistry · Domain knowledge · Procedural knowledge · Procedural memory · Task (project management · Computer Science · Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Memory Processes and Influences · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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