TY - JOUR
T1 - Levels upon levels
T2 - Predicting age differences in text recall
AU - Stine, Elizabeth A.L.
AU - Wingfield, Arthur
N1 - Funding Information:
‘This work was supported by PHS Grant AGO4517 from the National institute on Aging. We thank Sarah Wayland, Nancy Sender, and Sheldon Myers for help in data collection and analysis. We also thank Walter Kintsch for making available to us the passages upon which our stimuli were based. 2From Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254, U.S.A.
PY - 1987
Y1 - 1987
N2 - Younger and older adults read and recalled narrative and expository prose passages of varying propositional density. Age differences in recall were smaller when text units were from higher levels in a coherence graph and when the young and elderly groups compared were higher in verbal ability. The extent to which age differences were moderated by these factors varied, however, as a function of text characteristics. These results reinforce the position that the extent of age differences in text recall depends on both text and reader characteristics.
AB - Younger and older adults read and recalled narrative and expository prose passages of varying propositional density. Age differences in recall were smaller when text units were from higher levels in a coherence graph and when the young and elderly groups compared were higher in verbal ability. The extent to which age differences were moderated by these factors varied, however, as a function of text characteristics. These results reinforce the position that the extent of age differences in text recall depends on both text and reader characteristics.
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U2 - 10.1080/03610738708259322
DO - 10.1080/03610738708259322
M3 - Article
C2 - 3505871
AN - SCOPUS:0023466147
VL - 13
SP - 179
EP - 183
JO - Experimental Aging Research
JF - Experimental Aging Research
SN - 0361-073X
IS - 4
ER -