ArticleMemory (Hove, England)2022
Age effects on category learning, categorical perception, and generalization.
Article in Memory (Hove, England), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Multisensory perception constrains the formation of object categories: a review of evidence from sensory-driven and predictive processes on categorical decisions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- The effects of age on category learning and prototype- and exemplar-based generalization.Psychology and aging · 2022Article
- Understanding associative false memories in aging using multivariate analyses.Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition · 2022Article
- Category-Biased Neural Representations Form Spontaneously during Learning That Emphasizes Memory for Specific Instances.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Age deficits in memory for individual episodes are well established. Less is known about how age affects another key memory function: the ability to form new conceptual knowledge. Here we studied age differences in concept formation in a category-learning paradigm with face-blend stimuli, using several metrics: direct learning of category members presented during training, generalisation of category labels to new examples, and shifts in perceived similarity between category members that often follow category learning. We found that older adults were impaired in direct learning of training examples, but that there was no significant age deficit in generalisation once we accounted for the deficit in direct learning. We also found that category learning affected the perceived similarity between members of the same versus opposing categories, and age did not significantly moderate this effect. Lastly, we compared traditional category learning to categorisation after a learning task in which a category label (shared last name) was presented alongside stimulus-specific information (unique first names that individuated category members). We found that simultaneously learning stimulus-specific and category information resulted in decreased category learning, and that this decrement was apparent in both age groups.
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