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| Aging and longitudinal change in perceptual-motor skill acquisition in healthy adults | | Author(s) | Karen M Rodrigue, Kristen M Kennedy, Naftali Raz |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 4, July 2005 |
| Pages | pp P174-P181 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Mental speed ; Learning capacity ; Mental ageing ; Older people ; Adults ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Knowledge about ageing of perceptual motor skills is based almost exclusively on cross-sectional studies. The authors examined age-related changes in the retention of mirror tracing skills in healthy adults who practised for 3 separate days at baseline and retrained 5 years later at follow-up. Overall, speed and accuracy of an acquired skill were partially retained after a 5-year interim, although the same asymptote was reached. Analyses with individual learning curves indicated that the effects of age on mirror tracing speed were greater at follow-up than at baseline, with older people requiring more training to reach asymptote. Thus, although the long-term retention of acquired skills declines with age, older people still retain the ability to learn the skill. Moreover, those who maintained a processing speed comparable with that of the younger participants evidenced no age-related decline in performance on the mirror drawing task. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051121213 A |
| Classmark | DG: DE: D6: B: SD: 3J: 7T |
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