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Enactment effects and integration processes in younger and older adults' memory for actions

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Feyereisen, Pierre [UCL]

The positive effects of gesturing on memory are robust but their interpretation is still controversial. To clarify the issue, recognition and cued recall of action phrases were compared in 24 younger (M=20 years) and 20 older adults (M=68 years), in three encoding conditions-purely verbal tasks (VTs), subject-performed tasks (SPTs), and experimenter-performed tasks (EPTs)-for well- and poorly integrated phrases. As expected, the effects of these factors were significant, but there was no interaction between age-related differences, enactment effects, and semantic association. In particular, both SPT and EPT displayed similar advantages over VT conditions in both age groups and in the two memory tasks. These results are discussed in relation to the debate between Engelkamp on one side, and Kormi-Nouri and Nilsson on the other side, about the role of motor components in the episodic integration of verbs and nouns in action phrases.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2009
Language Anglais
Journal information "Memory (Hove, England)" - Vol. 17, no. 4, p. 374-85 (2009)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 0965-8211
e-issn 1464-0686
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - PSP/PSP - Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation
MESH Subject Young Adult ; Semantics ; Recognition (Psychology) ; Psychomotor Performance ; Middle Aged ; Mental Recall ; Male ; Humans ; Gestures ; Female ; Association Learning ; Analysis of Variance ; Aging - psychology ; Aged, 80 and over ; Aged ; Age Factors ; Adult ; Adolescent
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Bibliographic reference Feyereisen, Pierre. Enactment effects and integration processes in younger and older adults' memory for actions. In: Memory (Hove, England), Vol. 17, no. 4, p. 374-85 (2009)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/21461