Older adults show a characteristic pattern of impaired and spared functioning relative to
younger adults. Elsewhere we have argued that many age-related changes in cognitive …

This article selectively reviews research concerning nicotine's effects on cognition, including
the neurobiological mechanism for these effects, task and experimental features that may be …

'Working Memory, Thought, and Action'is the magnum opus of one of the most influential
cognitive psychologists of the past 50 years. This new volume on the model he created (with …

In this meta-analysis, the authors evaluated recent suggestions that older adults' episodic
memory impairments are partially due to a reduced ability to encode and retrieve …

Several studies in our lab and others have demonstrated age-related declines in mnemonic
discrimination during a recognition memory paradigm using repeated items, similar lures …

Past research has established an associative deficit hypothesis (eg, M. Naveh-Benjamin,
2000) that attributes part of older adults' poor episodic memory performance to their difficulty …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 52 (10) of
Developmental Psychology (see record 2016-46467-004). In the article, there were two …

Autobiographical memory (AM) is built up from various kinds of knowledge, from general to
specific, via generative processes. Aging seems to particularly affect the episodic …

Two experiments were conducted to assess the costs of attentional load during a feature
(colour–shape) binding task in younger and older adults. Experiment 1 showed that a …

Previous studies show that older adults have poorer immediate recall for language but the
reason is unknown. Older adults may recall fewer chunks from working memory, or may …