Differences in abstraction ability with age |
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| Authors: | M S Albert J Wolfe G Lafleche |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114. |
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| Abstract: | Three tests of abstraction were administered to 89 optimally healthy subjects aged 30-79. Performance on all 3 tasks showed significant differences with age. This was primarily, although not entirely, the result of deficits in performance by the 70-year-old subjects. These results do not appear to be related to changes in memory ability or to a differential increase in a particular type of abstraction error. |
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