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ArticleInternational journal of aging & human development2014

Event simultaneity does not eliminate age deficits in implicit probabilistic sequence learning.

Alissa B Forman-Alberti, Kendra L Seaman, Darlene V Howard, James H Howard

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Article in International journal of aging & human development, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Alissa B Forman-Alberti
Kendra L Seaman
Darlene V Howard
James H Howard

Funding

Aging and the Cognitive and Neural Bases of Implicit Associative LearningR01AG036863 · NIA · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI HOWARD, DARLENE V., HOWARD, JAMES H. · 2010 to 2014
$2.0M
NIA NIH HHS 1R01 AG036863NIA NIH HHS R01 AG036863
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent studies have shown age-related deficits in learning subtle probabilistic sequential relationships. However, virtually all sequence learning studies have displayed successive events one at a time. Here we used a modified Triplets Learning Task to investigate if an age deficit occurs even when sequentially-presented predictive events remain in view simultaneously. Twelve young and 12 old adults observed two cue events and responded to a target event on each of a series of trials. All three events remained in view until the subject responded. Unbeknownst to participants, the first cue predicted one of four targets on 80% of the trials. Learning was indicated by faster and more accurate responding to these high-probability targets than to low-probability targets. Results revealed age deficits in sequence learning even with this simultaneous display, suggesting that age differences are not due solely to general processing declines, but rather reflect an age-related deficit in associative learning.

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AdolescentAgedAged, 80 and overAge FactorsAgingAssociation LearningCuesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeuropsychological TestsReaction TimeYoung Adult

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PMID25622473
PMCPMC4926261

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