Visuospatial Bootstrapping: Aging and the Facilitation of Verbal Memory by Spatial Displays (ICPSR 36132)
Version Date: Apr 27, 2015 View help for published
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Clara Calia, Queen Margaret University (Edinburgh);
Stephen Darling, Queen Margaret University (Edinburgh);
Richard Allen, University of Leeds;
Jelena Havelka, University of Leeds
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36132.v1
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Recent studies on verbal immediate serial recall show evidence of the integration of information from verbal and visuospatial short-term memory with long-term memory representations. Verbal serial recall is improved when the information is arranged in a familiar spatially distributed pattern, such as a telephone keypad. This pattern, termed 'Visuospatial Bootstrapping' is consistent with the existence within working memory of an episodic buffer (Baddeley, 2000). The present experiment aimed to investigate whether similar results would be obtained in a sample of older adults. Older (55-76) and younger (19-35) adults carried out visual serial recall in three visual display conditions that have previously been used to demonstrate visuospatial bootstrapping. Results demonstrated better performance when digits were presented in a typical telephone keypad display. Although digit serial recall declined with age, this visuospatial bootstrapping effect did not differ in size between older and younger adults. Theoretical and practical implications of these results are described.
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This dataset is part of ICPSR's Archives of Scientific Psychology journal database. Users should contact the Editorial Office at the American Psychological Association for information on requesting data access.
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Convenience sampling was used. See Calia et al (in press), 'Visuospatial bootstrapping: aging and the facilitation of verbal memory by spatial displays'. Archives of Scientific Psychology.
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Older and younger adults.
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MMSE; Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices (RCPM); WAIS digits-forward; WAIS digits-backward; Corsi Blocks Task; Visual Patterns task.
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2015-04-27
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- Calia, Clara, Stephen Darling, Richard Allen, and Jelena Havelka. Visuospatial Bootstrapping: Aging and the Facilitation of Verbal Memory by Spatial Displays. ICPSR36132-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-04-27. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36132.v1
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