The ability to prioritize valuable information is critical for the efficient use of memory in daily
life. When information is important, we engage more effective encoding mechanisms that …

As people get older, there are changes and declines in memory and cognitive abilities,
including a general slowing of cognitive functions, declining episodic memory, and lower …

Older adults often face memory deficits in binding unrelated items. However, in situations
such as preparing for foreign travel, a learner may be highly motivated to learn the …

Previous research has indicated that perceptual processing fluency significantly affects
metacognitive predictions of performance but not learning outcomes. In the present study …

People are generally able to selectively attend and remember high-value over low-value
information. Here, we investigated whether young and older adults would display typical …

The factors that trigger lapses of attention (eg, mind-wandering) during new learning remain
unclear. The present study investigated whether the likelihood of experiencing an attentional …

For memory to be efficient, people need to remember important information. This involves
selective encoding and retrieval operations to maximise the recall of valuable information at …

Valuable items are often remembered better than less valuable items, but research on the
mechanisms supporting this value effect is limited. In the current study, we sought to …

The ability to selectively focus on and remember important information, referred to as value-
directed remembering, may be crucial for effective memory functioning. In the present study …

Objectives The goal of this preregistered study was to synthesize empirical findings on age
differences in motivated cognition using a meta-analytic approach, with a focus on the …