Mode of Presentation, Age, and Short-Term Memory
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Gerontology
- Vol. 30 (1) , 56-59
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geronj/30.1.56
Abstract
Female volunteers, ranging in age from 19 to 78 years, viewed or listened to prose passages and sequences of unrelated digits in an evaluation of the effects of modality (visual Vs. auditory) upon short-term memory. The data indicated that performance on the1 digit span task was better with the auditory than with the visual presentation mode, while the opposite effect (i.e., visual better than auditory) was found with the prose passages. Although there were age-related deficits with both types of materials, the modality effects were similar for all age levels.Keywords
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