Memory for Prose and Aging: A Meta-Analysis

Research in memory processes in the elderly in the early 1980s was strongly influenced by research in experimental psychology establishing standardized methods for investigating memory for discourses. Previously, memory for prose was not studied; exceptions occurred (Gordon & Clark, 1974; Schneider, Gritz, & Jarvik, 1975; Taub, 1976) in which intuitive or verbatim approaches to scoring recall were used. When more objective methods of prose analysis were developed by various authors, notably Meyer (1975) and Kintsch (1974), investigators in aging began research programs to study memory for discourse.

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