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a) a bilinguality advantage; b) a superiority of SPTs over VTs; c) a substantial decline of
performance in both bilingual and monolingual old-old adults. It was concluded that bilingualism
may play an important role in developing more effective learning strategies.
3005.2 Memory effects of motor activation in subject performed tasks and sign language, J. von
Essen, L.G. Nilsson, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
The controversy regarding whether motor activation per se is causing the subject-performed task
(SPT) effect, is addressed by comparing the effect of SPT to the effect of encoding by means of a
sign language task (SLT). The SLT condition is claimed to be a verbal/linguistic task, and
including relevant motor activation. The results showed that subjects in the SLT condition
performed similarly to subjects in the SPT condition in free recall. Subjects in both these
conditions outperformed subjects in the control conditions. It is suggested that the SPT and SLT
superiority is caused mainly by relevant motor activation.
3005.3 Remembering what to do and when to do it: Does enactment improve prospective
memory? J.M. Rusted, F. Flannery, L. Isham, Sussex University, Brighton, UK
Research indicates that the enactment superiority observed in retrospective memory (RM) may not
extend to prospective memory (PM). We present two studies designed to isolate the conditions
under which enactment might improve PM. Study 1 reports a dissociation between RM and PM:
enactment at encoding impaired PM initiation, while improving memory for content (RM) of that
intention. Study 2 demonstrates that enactment to promote distinctive RM encoding can improve
PM. In conclusion, whether enactment improves or impedes PM depends critically upon the
motoric overlap between the enactment and the PM task. Counterintuitively, the greater the
overlap, the poorer the PM.
3005.4 SPT effects of aged patients with hypertension or type 2 diabetes, B. Han, Institute of
Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Aim: Exploring the SPT effects of aged patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes. Methods:
SPT tests were applied on 30 patients with hypertension (mean age 61.6) and 30 control, 30
patients with type 2 diabetes (mean age 66.3) and 30 control. Results: There were no difference
between hypertension patients and control with respect to both free and cued recall performance,
while each group showed significant SPT effects. However, patients with diabetes benefit less
from support than control participants. Conclusion: Coding support (high semantic relation
between verb and noun in the item, enactment) compensated the pathological memory impairment
on patients.
3005.5 Memory for subject-performed actions: Evidence from studies with neurological
patients, M. Knopf, W. Mack, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universtät Frankfurt am Main, Germany
In order to explore the basis of the enactment effect memory processes of subjects suffering from
different neurological symptoms were studied (e.g., Parkinson Disease -, AD -, Frontal Lobe
patients). It is tested whether memory performance level for the VT- as well as the SPT-condition
in the different patient groups is substantially and differentially reduced compared to healthy
subjects. Moreover, it is assessed whether a disproportionate impairment of memory performance
level shows up in the different groups. Our findings fit best with a conceptual memory view
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