Effets de l’âge et de la capacité de mémoire de travail sur l’exécution d’instructions de complexité variable chez des adultes jeunes et âgés |
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Authors: | C Auffray C Chever F Ganier |
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Institution: | 1. CRPCC – EA 1285, université de Bretagne Occidentale, UFR lettres et sciences humaines, 20, rue Duquesne, 29200 Brest, France;2. Consultation mémoire, centre hospitalier Ferdinand-Grall, 1, route de Pencran-Lavallot, 29207 Landerneau cedex, France;3. Lab-STICC – UMR 6285 – CNRS, centre européen de réalité virtuelle, université de Bretagne Occidentale, 25, rue Claude-Chappe, 29280 Plouzané, France |
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Abstract: | Technical devices are part of elderly people's daily life. Meanwhile, research has not yet systematically explored how old people understand procedural instructions accompanying these devices. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate how age and memory span affect how people follow procedural instructions. To do so, the Reading Span Test of Daneman & Carpenter (1980) and an adaptation of the Kaplan & White's (1980) following directions game were administrated to young and older adults. The Reading Span Test was administrated in order to determine the participants’ memory span size. Then, participants had to follow procedural instructions with a growing complexity displayed on a computer screen. Results show that participants’ age and instructions complexity affect how the instructions are performed. Old adults encounter more difficulty performing the task than young adults. Furthermore, whatever the age, as the complexity of instructions increases, low-span participants have more difficulty performing instructions than high-span participants do. |
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Keywords: | Complexité des instructions Exé cution d&rsquo instructions Empan mné sique Test d&rsquo empan de lecture Vieillissement |
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