2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research for understanding underlying mechanisms of source memory deficits in old adults
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13610097
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
実験系心理学
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| Research Institution | Otsuma Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
KINJO Hikari Otsuma Women's University, Associate Professor, 社会情報学部, 助教授 (00327298)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2004
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| Keywords | Memory / Aging / Old Adults / Source Memory / Source Monitoring / Metacognition |
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| Research Abstract |
A series of experiments explored underlying mechanisms of why old adults show disproportional deficits in source memory as opposed to item memory. The results of this study indicate that the source memory deterioration would be partly due to the age-related feature binding deficit in short and/or long-term memory and the age-related attention control deficits in memory tasks. Furthermore, the study showed one of the most important hidden factors involved in the source memory deterioration seems to be the slowing speed of processes in encoding and/or retrieval for old adults. A further study is necessary to examine this hypothesis.
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