Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, Vol 50, Issue 4 P193-P201, Copyright © 1995 by The Gerontological Society of America
Differential age-related influences on memory for verbal-symbolic information and visual-spatial information?
TA Salthouse
School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Adults from a wide range of ages were administered parallel versions of
three memory tasks designed to involve verbal-symbolic information or
visual-spatial information. Several analytical procedures were used to
determine whether there were selective age-related effects on measures
reflecting spatial information processing compared to those reflecting
verbal-symbolic information processing. The results provided little support
for this hypothesis and instead were consistent with the existence of a
common age-related factor that contributes to the age differences in many
cognitive measures.
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