Recognizing a stimulus as previously encountered is a crucial everyday life skill and a
critical task motivating theoretical development in models of human memory. Although there …

The dominant view in cognitive psychology is that memory includes several distinct and
separate systems including episodic memory, semantic memory and associative learning …

Efficient conversation is guided by the mutual knowledge, or common ground, that
interlocutors form as a conversation progresses. Characterized from the perspective of …

It is widely assumed that older adults suffer a deficit in the psychological processes that
underlie remembering of contextual or source information. This conclusion is based in large …

It has been suggested that an age-related decrease in the ability to bind and retain
conjunctions of features may account for some of the pronounced decline of visual working …

A hallmark of adaptive cognition is the ability to modulate learning in response to the
demands posed by different types of tests and different types of materials. Here we evaluate …

Current theory has divided memory into multiple systems, resulting in a fractionated account
of human behaviour. By an alternative perspective, memory is a single system. However …

Age-related deficits in associative processing are well-documented (eg, Naveh-Benjamin,
2000) and have been assumed to be the result of a general deficit that affects all types of …

Time of day is known to influence cognition differently across age groups, with young adults
performing better later than earlier in the day and older adults showing the opposite pattern …

A recent interesting theoretical account of aging and memory judgments, the DRYAD
(density of representations yields age-related deficits; Benjamin, 2010; Benjamin, Diaz …