RESUMEN

Our study examined age-related differences on a new memory test assessing memory for "who," "when," and "where," and associations among these elements. Participants were required to remember a sequence of pictures of different faces paired with different places. Older adults remembered significantly fewer correct face-place pairs in the correct sequence compared with young adults. Correlation analyses with standardized neuropsychological tests provide preliminary evidence for construct validity. Our results offer insight into age-related changes in the ability to remember associations between people and places at different points in time using a portable test that can be administered rapidly in various settings.

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Envejecimiento/fisiología , Aprendizaje por Asociación/fisiología , Memoria/fisiología , Pruebas Neuropsicológicas , Adolescente , Adulto , Anciano , Análisis de Varianza , Distribución de Chi-Cuadrado , Niño , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Factores de Tiempo , Adulto Joven