Memory

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Plasticity of memory for new learning in very old age: a story of major loss?

Longitudinal survivors of the Berlin Aging Study (N = 96, mean age = 84 years, range 75-101 years) were instructed and trained in a mnemonic skill to examine plasticity of episodic memory performance in very old age. Performance gains after mnemonic ...
Tania Singer, Ulman Lindenberger, Paul B Baltes (Psychol Aging, 200306)
plasticity-memory-new-learning-old-age-story-major-loss.asp

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Interference effects from divided attention during retrieval in younger and older adults.

The authors examined how retrieval, under divided attention (DA) conditions, is affected by the type of material in a concurrent task, and whether aging produces larger interference effects on memory. Young and old adults studied a list of unrelated ...
Myra A Fernandes, Morris Moscovitch (Psychol Aging, 200306)
interference-effects-divided-attention-retrieval-younger-older-adults.asp

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Aging, memory load, and resource allocation during reading.

To test the notion that aging brings an inability to self-initiate processing, the authors investigated the effects of memory load on online sentence understanding. Younger and older adults read a series of short passages with or without a simultaneous ...
Andrew P Smiler, Danielle D Gagne, Elizabeth A L Stine-Morrow (Psychol Aging, 200306)
aging-memory-load-resource-allocation-reading.asp

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The costs of doing two things at once for young and older adults: talking while walking, finger tapping, and ignoring speech or noise.

Young and older adults provided language samples in response to questions while walking, finger tapping, and ignoring speech or noise. The language samples were scored on 3 dimensions: fluency, complexity, and content. The hypothesis that working memory ...
Susan Kemper, Ruth E Herman, Cindy H T Lian (Psychol Aging, 200306)
costs-doing-two-things-once-young-older-adults-talking-walking-finger.asp

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Training monitoring skills improves older adults self-paced associative learning.

We investigated a memory-enhancement program that involved teaching older adults to regulate study through self-testing. A regulation group was taught standard strategies along with self-testing techniques for identifying less well-learned items that ...
John Dunlosky, Alycia K Kubat-Silman, Christopher Hertzog (Psychol Aging, 200306)
training-monitoring-skills-improves-older-adults-self-paced.asp

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Lateral asymmetry in the hippocampal response to the remoteness of autobiographical memories.

The time scale of hippocampal involvement in retrieving memories, particularly those more remote, is still a matter of debate. Some propose that the hippocampus is not involved in the retrieval of remote memories, whereas others assert that it is ...
Eleanor A Maguire, Christopher D Frith (J Neurosci, 200306)
lateral-asymmetry-hippocampal-response-remoteness-autobiographical.asp

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Cognitive style, working memory and learning behaviour and attainment in school subjects.

BACKGROUND: Both working memory capacity and cognitive style have independently been found to affect performance on school-type tasks, but their effects in interaction have not been considered. AIMS: The aims of this study were to consider the ...
Richard J Riding, Michael Grimley, Hassan Dahraei, Gloria Banner (Br J Educ Psychol, 200306)
cognitive-style-working-memory-learning-behaviour-attainment-school.asp

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Long-term perceptual specificity effects in recognition memory: the transformed pictures paradigm.

The effects of a study/test mismatch in the viewing mode of natural scenes on recognition memory performance were examined. At both encoding and retrieval, scenes were presented either by being divided into quarters that were displayed in a sequential ...
Colleen A Ray, Eyal M Reingold (Can J Exp Psychol, 200306)
long-term-perceptual-specificity-effects-recognition-memory.asp

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Effects of encoding style, expectation of retrieval mode, and retrieval style on memory for action phrases.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of encoding style, expectation of retrieval mode, and retrieval style on memory for action phrases using the recall test and the source-monitoring test. In Exp. 1, the subjects were asked to memorize ...
Hama Watanabe (Percept Mot Skills, 200306)
effects-encoding-style-expectation-retrieval-mode-retrieval-style.asp

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Greater orbitofrontal activity predicts better memory for faces.

Having demonstrated recently that the orbitofrontal cortex is selectively involved when novel abstract visual information is encoded, we investigated whether the same orbitofrontal area would be activated during the encoding of novel human faces. The ...
Stephen Frey, Michael Petrides (Eur J Neurosci, 200306)
greater-orbitofrontal-activity-predicts-better-memory-faces.asp