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A Hackney

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PubMed1999

Age, testing at preferred or nonpreferred times (testing optimality), and false memory.

Two experiments investigated whether age and testing at preferred (optimal) times of day or nonpreferred (nonoptimal) times affected the ability to select relevant from irrelevant but thematically related alternatives in a verbal false memory paradigm. A 3rd experiment pursued the same issues with a visual false memory paradigm. In all 3 experiments, younger adults (n = 195) correctly recalled studied items more often than older adults (n = 121), whereas the 2 age groups correctly recognized about the same numbers of previously studied items. In all 3 experiments, nonoptimally tested older adults had more difficulty excluding nonstudied but thematically related items than the other groups; thus, they showed the greatest evidence of false memory, although all groups did so to a significant extent. The results suggest that optimality and its circadian determinants need to be considered with some tasks for the elderly. Various models and mechanisms are discussed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

A teachers' questionnaire description of epileptic children.

A teachers' questionnaire was completed for 120 children from normal schools, half of whom suffered from epilepsy. The rate of perceived disturbance among the 30 epileptic children who, for a variety of reasons, had been admitted to a neuropsychiatric hospital was as high as that of a matched group of psychiatric inpatients. The other epileptic children were seen to exhibit significantly more signs of disturbance than their normal school controls with whom they had been matched for behavior. The two epileptic groups shared certain behavioral characteristics. These did not fit into typical "neurotic" or "antisocial" patterns and may relate to cerebral dysfunction.

Adolescent↗