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Aging Effects on Associative Memory

(Project leaders: Shir Ben-Zvi, Ofer Hugeri)

 

Remembering associative relations is the aspect of episodic memory showing the greatest sensitivity to the effects of healthy aging. However, the modulation of aging effects by modality relationships between the to-be-associated memoranda has not been systematically investigated. In this study, we compare associative memory performance of healthy older and young adults, manipulating modality relations (cross-modal picture-sound vs. uni-modal picture pairs), using cued recall and associative recognition assays for parallel materials. We aim to compare aging effects on associative memory as expressed using different retrieval methods and using cross- versus uni-modal memoranda.

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