... memory tasks. This study explored how the content (place, person and object) and specificity (conceptual gist versus perceptual detail) of event memories relate to the subjective experience of memory vividness and memory confidence, and how this relationship is affected by healthy ageing. 100 healthy...

... theories of aging which suggest that older adults may be better or worse at regulating negative emotion in their relationships than younger adults. The current study (N = 280 dating and married couples, 30-88 years old) tested whether age buffers or exacerbates the effects of observed emotional expression...

...Priyam Das; Mark Steyvers; Andrew Perfors Cognitive decline often accompanies natural aging, which results in younger adults outperforming older adults, on average, on cognitive tasks requiring skills such as attention, memory, or reasoning. This performance gap between age groups persists even...

... with age. Given previous findings indicating that likening a to-be-rotated object to a human body improves mental rotation performance in young adults, we examined whether this human-body analogy would improve older adults’ mental rotation performance. We also tested whether the human-body analogy effect...

... comprehension reading aging prediction Since we aimed to investigate the relative distances between the probability of each continuation, we computed a difference score between first- and second-choice completions (henceforth, “imbalance” value). Lower imbalance values (i.e. lower cloze differences...

...Kristin J. Van Engen; Avanti Dey; Nichole Runge; Brent Spehar; Mitchell S. Sommers; Jonathan E. Peelle This study assessed the effects of age, word frequency, and background noise on the time course of lexical activation during spoken word recognition. Participants (41 young adults and 39 older...

... of self-regulation and tested their between- and within-person associations with upstream personality factors (conscientiousness) and downstream psychological and physical health in 149 older adults aged 60–93 years, assessed semi-annually for five years (up to 10 waves). Indices of self-regulation were...

... selectivity theory (SST), the positivity effect derives from the age-related motivational shift towards attaining emotionally meaningful goals which become more important as the perception of future time becomes more limited. Cognitive control mechanisms are critical in achieving such goals and therefore SST...

...Megan J. Limbert; Jennifer A. Coleman; Angela Gutchess; Rolf Zwaan; Christopher Madan Despite the number of documented declines in memory with age, memory for socioemotional information can be preserved into older adulthood. These studies assessed whether memory for character information could...

...Cary R. Stothart; Walter R. Boot; Daniel J. Simons Few studies have used online data collection to study cognitive aging. We used a large ( N = 515) online sample to replicate the findings that inattentional blindness increases with age and with the distance of the unexpected object from the focus...