Aging is associated with specific impairments of learning and memory, some of which are
similar to those caused by hippocampal damage. Studies of the effects of aging on …

Improvements in health care have greatly increased life span in the United States. The focus
is now shifting from physical well-being to improvement in mental well-being or maintenance …

This article presents a theory in which automatization is construed as the acquisition of a
domain-specific knowledge base, formed of separate representations, instances, of each …

This new edition of Human Memory: Theory and Practice contains all the chapters of the
previous edition (unchanged in content) plus three new chapters. The first edition was …

'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 …

An associative hypothesis to explain and predict older adults' deficient explicit episodic
memory performance was outlined and tested. The hypothesis attributes a substantial part of …

The metaphor of a" cognitive map" has attracted wide interest since it was first proposed in
the late 1940s. Researchers from fields as diverse as psychology, geography, and urban …

Intact memory for complex events requires not only memory for particular features (eg, item,
location, color, size), but also intact cognitive processes for binding the features together …

The authors reviewed the evidence of age differences in episodic memory for content of a
message and the context associated with it. Specifically, the authors tested a hypothesis that …

The phenomenon of age-related cognitive decline has long been controversial, both in
terms of mere existence, and with respect to how it is explained. Some researchers have …