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The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 60:P92-P97 (2005)
© 2005 The Gerontological Society of America


RESEARCH ARTICLE

Intrusions in Episodic Recall: Age Differences in Editing of Overt Responses

Michael J. Kahana1,, Emily D. Dolan1, Colin L. Sauder1 and Arthur Wingfield2,

1 Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
2 Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Address correspondence to M. J. Kahana, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 or to A. Wingfield, Volen National Center for Complex Systems, MS 013, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110. E-mail: kahana{at}psych.upenn.edu or wingfield{at}brandeis.edu

Two experiments compared episodic word-list recall of young and older adults. In Experiment 1, using standard free-recall procedures, older adults recalled significantly fewer correct items and made significantly more intrusions (recall of items that had not appeared on the target list) than younger adults. In Experiment 2, we introduced a new method, called externalized free recall, in which participants were asked to recall any items that came to mind during the recall period but to indicate with an immediate key press those items they could identify as intrusions. Both age groups generated a large number of intrusions, but older adults were significantly less likely than young adults to identify these as nonlist items. Results suggest that an editing deficit may be a contributor to age differences in episodic recall and that externalized free recall may be a useful tool for testing computationally explicit models of episodic recall.







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