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Data for Age Differences in the Implementation of Knowledge and Experience to Support Memory Elizabeth A. Maylor (24733246) Stephen P. Badham (24784678) Memory in old age Migrated from ePrints As the proportion of older adults in society continues to rise in the 21 century, geriatric research is becoming increasingly important. Ageing results in the decline of both physical and cognitive abilities and the most widespread cognitive decline is a reduction in memory ability. Recent research has found that when information is consistent with an individual’s knowledge and experience, it is easier to remember than abstract information and older adults appear to benefit from this effect more than do young adults. For example, when people are asked to remember an association between two words, age differences in memory performance are smaller for related word pairs (article-book, fatigue-sleep) compared to unrelated word pairs (article-lapel, fatigue-glass). It may therefore be possible to improve memory, particularly for older adults, by encouraging individuals to use knowledge and information that they are familiar with to support memory processes. The project will use a range of memory tests to investigate how people can use knowledge about the world to distinguish between different information in memory during retrieval; improve the chances of thinking in the same way when encoding information and when retrieving information; and reduce the amount of effort required to successfully encode and retrieve information.<br><br>Data record consists of 3 zip files, each with their own data file, codebook and ReadMe file, as well as the publication resulting. The data are a series of studies investigating how knowledge and experience may help alleviate age deficits in memory. Further information about data collection methods are listed under the 'Coverage and Methodology' section of the UK Data Service entry. 2015-12-18T00:00:00Z Dataset Dataset 10.82444/warw.33802474.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_for_Age_Differences_in_the_Implementation_of_Knowledge_and_Experience_to_Support_Memory/33802474 CC BY 4.0