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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| author | Christiane Thiel Jale Özyurt Waldo Nogueira Sebastian Puschmann |
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| description | 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 participants were tested with a vocoded and unvocoded serial list learning task involving immediate and delayed free recall. We found that degraded auditory input increased forgetting of previously encoded items, especially in older participants. We further found that working memory capacity predicted forgetting of degraded information in young participants. In old participants, verbal IQ was the most important predictor for forgetting acoustically degraded information. Our data provide evidence that acoustically degraded information, even if encoded, is especially vulnerable to forgetting in old age. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1c18c882e25f4ed68272a88ba5c947212022-12-22T00:50:17ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience1662-51612016-09-011010.3389/fnhum.2016.00473218741Effects of age on long term memory for degraded speechChristiane Thiel0Jale Özyurt1Waldo Nogueira2Sebastian Puschmann3University of OldenburgUniversity of OldenburgMedical University HannoverUniversity of OldenburgPrior 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 participants were tested with a vocoded and unvocoded serial list learning task involving immediate and delayed free recall. We found that degraded auditory input increased forgetting of previously encoded items, especially in older participants. We further found that working memory capacity predicted forgetting of degraded information in young participants. In old participants, verbal IQ was the most important predictor for forgetting acoustically degraded information. Our data provide evidence that acoustically degraded information, even if encoded, is especially vulnerable to forgetting in old age.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00473/fullworking memoryagelong term memoryAuditory learningvocabulary knowledgevocoded speech |
| spellingShingle | Christiane Thiel Jale Özyurt Waldo Nogueira Sebastian Puschmann Effects of age on long term memory for degraded speech Frontiers in Human Neuroscience working memory age long term memory Auditory learning vocabulary knowledge vocoded speech |
| title | Effects of age on long term memory for degraded speech |
| title_full | Effects of age on long term memory for degraded speech |
| title_fullStr | Effects of age on long term memory for degraded speech |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effects of age on long term memory for degraded speech |
| title_short | Effects of age on long term memory for degraded speech |
| title_sort | effects of age on long term memory for degraded speech |
| topic | working memory age long term memory Auditory learning vocabulary knowledge vocoded speech |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00473/full |
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