It has been claimed that bilingual experience leads to an enhancement of cognitive control
across the lifespan, a claim that has been investigated by comparing monolingual and …

Cognitive aging is often described in the context of loss or decline. Emerging research
suggests that the story is more complex, with older adults showing both losses and gains in …

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number
of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues have been generated in the past …

Until the mid 1990s, available evidence regarding neurocognitive aging could be
summarized in a simple statement: cognitive deficits in healthy older adults are largest for …

A dual-task interference paradigm was used to investigate the effect of perceptual effort on
recall of spoken word lists by young and older adults with good hearing and with mild-to …

Relative to younger adults, older adults tend to perform more poorly on tests of both free
recall and item recognition memory. The age difference in performance is typically larger for …

Older adults have a harder time than younger adults remembering specific events and
experiences (episodic memory), whereas the ability to use one's general knowledge either …

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 …

Changes in cognition, affect, and brain function combine to promote a shift in the nature of
mentation in older adulthood, favoring exploitation of prior knowledge over exploratory …

Episodic memory declines with older age, but it is unresolved whether this decline reflects
reduced probability of successfully retrieving information from memory, or decreased …