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  • Title: Generation and associative encoding in young and old adults: the effect of the strength of association between cues and targets on a cued recall task.
    Author: Taconnat L, Froger C, Sacher M, Isingrini M.
    Journal: Exp Psychol; 2008; 55(1):23-30. PubMed ID: 18271350.
    Abstract:
    The generation effect (i.e., better recall of the generated items than the read items) was investigated with a between-list design in young and elderly participants. The generation task difficulty was manipulated by varying the strength of association between cues and targets. Overall, strong associates were better recalled than weak associates. However, the results showed different generation effect patterns according to strength of association and age, with a greater generation effect for weak associates in younger adults only. These findings suggest that generating weak associates leads to more elaborated encoding, but that elderly adults cannot use this elaborated encoding as well as younger adults to recall the target words at test.
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