Methodological problems arise when attempting to balance differences between age groups in acquisition, so that differences in remembering can be assessed. Higher recognition than recall scores in older age groups are unlikely to be due to partial input images when meaningful words are employed and therefore support the hypothesis of special retrieval difficulties.
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