Emotional experiences can be described by two factors: valence (how negative or positive)
and arousal (how calming or exciting). Although both dimensions appear to influence …

As we age we become increasingly susceptible to memory distortions and inaccuracies.
Over the past decade numerous neuroimaging studies have attempted to illuminate the …

The organization of temporal information is critical for the encoding and retrieval of episodic
memories. In the rodent hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, evidence accumulated over the …

The new edition of the authoritative book in the field of adult education—fully revised to
reflect the latest research and practice implications. For nearly three decades, Learning in …

The idea of one's memory" filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in
general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a" full …

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 …

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 …

Research on cognitive aging seems to have three primary goals: first, to determine the
extent to which the diversity of observed behavioral changes that occur with advancing age …

We provide a comprehensive review describing research on the qualitative representational
nature of older adults' episodic memories. Our review considers several broad theoretical …

Declines in episodic memory in older adults are typically attributed to differences in
encoding strategies and/or retrieval processes. These views omit a critical factor in age …