For more than 50 years, psychologists, gerontologists, and, more recently, neuroscientists
have considered the possibility of successful aging. How to define successful aging remains …

Age-related cognitive changes often include difficulties in retrieving memories, particularly
those that rely on personal experiences within their temporal and spatial contexts (ie …

Episodic memory and working memory decline with advancing age. Nevertheless, large-
scale population-based studies document well-preserved memory functioning in some older …

In the present meta-analysis, we integrated findings from 228 studies on the association of
six caregiving-related stressors and caregiving uplifts with burden and depressed mood …

Individual differences in cognitive performance increase with advancing age, reflecting
marked cognitive changes in some individuals along with little or no change in others …

Five-year changes in episodic and semantic memory were examined in a sample of 829
participants (35-80 years). A cohort-matched sample (N= 967) was assessed to control for …

This article addresses key topics in cognitive aging, intending to provide the reader with a
brief overview of the current state of research in this growing, multidisciplinary field. A …

In recent years the field of cognitive aging has flourished and expanded into many different
disciplines. It is probably, therefore, inevitable that some of the research has become very …

Relative to younger adults, older adults tend to perform more poorly on tests of both free
recall and item recognition memory. The age difference in performance is typically larger for …

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on
human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divided into three sections …