Learning mnemonics: roles of aging and subtle cognitive impairment. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Previously validated methods of memory training were used in conjunction with the Folstein Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) to explore the relationship between complexity of learned mnemonic, aging, and subtle cognitive impairment. Subjects were 218 community-dwelling elderly. Treatment included imagery mnemonics for remembering names and faces and lists. There was a significant interaction among age, type of learning task (face-name vs. list), and improvement when controlling for MMSE score. There was also a significant interaction among MMSE score, type of learning task, and improvement when controlling for age. Scores on the more complex list-learning mnemonic were more affected by age and MMSE scores than were scores on the face-name mnemonic. Implications of the findings for cognitive training of the old old and the impaired are discussed.

publication date

  • March 1, 1990

Research

keywords

  • Aging
  • Cognition
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Memory

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0025390640

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1037//0882-7974.5.1.133

PubMed ID

  • 2317292

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 5

issue

  • 1