Age differences in memory for item and source information.

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Abstract
Two experiments are reported in which the incidence of source amnesia in older subjects is explored. In the first study, young and older adults were taught real facts about Canada. One week later they were asked to recall the facts and remember where they had learned them. The older people exhibited greater amounts of forgetting of the source of their knowledge. The second experiment confirmed this finding using made up facts. The finding of source amnesia in older, normal people has implications for theories of amnesia and, possibly, for theories of frontal lobe functions.

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