Year: 1986
Type: article
Abstract: This research has three interrelated foci: (i) engineering and testing a cognitive model of expert memory, (ii) the study of intellectual reserve capacity and (iii) the use of a testing-the-limits methodology to magnify and delineate age differences in limits of reserve capacity. The assumption is that age differences are magnified if studied at high levels of expertise or task difficulty. Results from age-comparative point training studies in expert memory are reported. Both young and elderly subjects reached high levels of skilled memory, confirming the model. However, despite this sizeable reserve capacity, when compared to IQ-eguivalent young adults, superior elderly showed decline in upper limits of function.
Authors: Reinhold Kliegl, Jacqui Smith, Paul B. Baltes
Language: English
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2942706607