The Effect of Age on a Short-Term Auditory Storage Process

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Abstract
Increasing age seems to affect the learning performance of normal individuals. Decrements in this ability may be due to changes in some short-term storage process. The ability to reproduce successively a series of digits when this series has been delivered as two simultaneous half-sets has been said to depend on a short-term storage mechanism. If this process is not involved in the recall of the first half-sets but is involved in the recall of the half-sets reproduced second, then age should, by hypothesis, principally affect the recall of the latter. The performance of 160 subjects between the ages of 11 and 90 supports this hypothesis and confirms previous findings.

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