Psychol Aging. 1992 Jun;7(2):242-51.

Improving memory performance in the aged through mnemonic training: a meta-analytic study.

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Center for Developmental Psychology, University of Louvain (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Belgium.

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Psychol Aging 1993 Sep;8(3):338.

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The effectiveness of memory training for the elderly was examined through a meta-analysis of pre-to-posttest gains on episodic memory tasks in healthy subjects aged 60 or above. Pre-to-posttest gains were found to be significantly larger in training groups (0.73 SD, k = 49) than in both control (0.38 SD, k = 10) and placebo (0.37 SD, k = 8) groups. Treatment gains in training groups were negatively affected by age of participants and duration of training sessions and positively affected by group treatment, pretraining, and memory-related interventions. No differences in treatment gain were obtained as a function of type of mnemonic taught nor the kind of pretraining used.

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