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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2008 Sep;23(3):657–664. doi: 10.1037/a0013008

Table 1.

Mean Percentage of Presented faces (SD in parentheses) Resulting in Name Errors (Occupation Correctly Remembered but Not Name) and Occupation Errors (Name Correctly Remembered but Not Occupation) for Young and Older Adults in Experiments 1 and 2

Error Type
Name Errors Occupation Errors
Experiment 1
  Young adults 16% (11%) 4% (4%)
  Older adults 27% (18%) 1% (1%)

Experiment 2
  Young adults 10% (8%) 4% (3%)
  Older adults 26% (12%) 7% (6%)