The Mismeasurement of Mind: Life-Span Changes in Paired-Associate-Learning Scores Reflect the “Cost” of Learning, Not Cognitive Decline
The Mismeasurement of Mind: Life-Span Changes in Paired-Associate-Learning Scores Reflect the “Cost” of Learning, Not Cognitive Decline
Michael Ramscar,C. Sun,Peter Hendrix,H. Baayen
2017 · DOI: 10.1177/0956797617706393
Psychology Science · 82 Citations
TLDR
Results showed that older bilinguals outperformed native speakers in a German PAL test, an advantage that increased with age, and indicate that failing to control for these effects is distorting the understanding of cognitive and brain development in adulthood.