Faculty Publications
A Pilot Study Of Performance In Young And Middle-Aged Adults On Verbal Recall
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Perceptual and Motor Skills
Volume
112
Issue
3
First Page
799
Last Page
802
Abstract
The objective was to explore whether middle-aged adults (M age = 48.9 yr.; n = 26) differed on verbal recall from young adults (M age = 26.3 yr.; n = 26). Little data exist on the performance of middle-aged, healthy adults. Groups of young and middle-aged adults recalled words from the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test across six trials during a single session. The same 15 words were used for recall in Trials 1-5. Prior to the sixth trial, 15 distractor words were presented. Participants then recalled the original set of 15 words. No significant differences occurred on any of the recall trials. Although the power of this study was low, the effect of age is apparently quite small. © Perceptual and Motor Skills 2011.
Department
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Original Publication Date
6-1-2011
DOI of published version
10.2466/10.23.28.PMS.112.3.799-802
Recommended Citation
Burda, Angela; Flatness, Jamie; Lyons, Ashley; and Sorensen, Emily, "A Pilot Study Of Performance In Young And Middle-Aged Adults On Verbal Recall" (2011). Faculty Publications. 1928.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/1928
