Evaluating Strategy Use, Online Awareness and Memory Performance Using the Contextual Memory Test Version 2 (CMT-2) in Healthy Adults.
Kai Ling Koh, Bhing Leet Tan, Rachel Rui En Pek and 3 others
PMID 41079220WHAT IT FOUND
Healthy adults who remembered the pictures using context or meaningful associations recalled more than those who used limited associations.
Most underestimated how many they would recall, and underestimating more went with better recall. Age made no difference.
Key findings
01Adults who used morning context or meaningful associations recalled significantly more items than those who used limited associations, and efficient strategies were linked to higher immediate, delayed and total recall.
02Most healthy participants underestimated how many items they would recall, and greater underestimation was associated with better recall performance.
03There was no significant difference between adults aged 18 to 39 and adults aged 40 and over in recall, strategy scores or accuracy of self-estimation.
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What it does not show
Only 10 participants were aged 65 or over, so that group was combined with the 40 to 64 group; the authors say the wider age spread this created may have hidden age-related differences.
Declared interests
Funded by the Singapore Institute of Technology Health and Social Sciences programme as part of an undergraduate occupational therapy honours thesis. Joan Toglia, one of the authors, is the author of the CMT and CMT-2. The remaining authors declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the link between context-based strategies and better recall as proof that teaching these strategies improves memory. Everyone was tested once, in a single session, with no treatment and no follow-up, so the study shows who recalled more on the day, not what changes recall over time.
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