Memory and Aging

Angela Gutchess

doi:10.1017/9781009354233.005

Chapter Four - Memory and Aging

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 February 2025

Angela Gutchess

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Angela Gutchess: Affiliation:
Brandeis University, Massachusetts

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This chapter reviews findings about the effects of aging on memory. Coverage includes working memory, encompassing processes such as refreshing and inhibition, as well as explicit and implicit long-term memory, and prospective memory. Within the topic of explicit long-term memory, specific topics include the levels of processing framework, subsequent memory paradigms, recollection, source memory, associative memory and binding, semantic memory, false memory, autobiographical memory, memory and future thinking, reactivation, controlled processes in long-term memory, event boundaries, and pattern separation.

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working memory long-term memory explicit long-term memory implicit long-term memory prospective memory

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Information: Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging , pp. 89 - 124

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009354233.005 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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