Effects of age on long term memory for degraded speech

Prior research suggests that acoustical degradation impacts encoding of items into memory, especially in elderly subjects. We here aimed to investigate whether acoustically degraded items, that are initially encoded into memory, are more prone to forgetting as a function of age. Young and old partic...

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Main Authors: Christiane Thiel, Jale Özyurt, Waldo Nogueira, Sebastian Puschmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00473/full