Interference and Morphological Recall in Young and Middle-aged Individuals

Abstract

Recall refers to the retention of information, it involves three stages namely encoding, storage and retrieval. Interference in recall would arise when there is a competition at the stage of encoding. Recalling morphological information is assumed to load the cognitive-linguistic system and recalling the same information in the presence of competitor stimulus can evoke more taxing to the system. The current study was carried out with the aim of studying interference and recall in young and middle aged individuals. The participants were divided into two groups based on their age and each group comprised of 25 individuals. Free Recall and bound Recall task was administered on the participants. Participants in both the group secured less scores, however a statistically significant difference between the two groups was not seen showing that the middle aged adults were also able to perform in par with younger participants and decline in memory was not evident in this population, even in task with higher cognitive-linguistic complexity.