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

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

Previous reviews of memory and aging, including those in prior volumes of The Handbook of
Aging and Cognition, have critically examined the welldocumented age-related declines in …

The study of memory encompasses a wide range of phenomena that, together, lie at the
center of the individual's cognitive, social, and personal functioning. Indeed, a recent …

Research in the neuropsychology of aging is concerned with changes in behavior with age
that are related to corresponding changes in the nervous system. In recent years, this field of …

The present chapter provides a review of the literature addressing changes in memory
performance in older adults (often retired individuals with an age between 60 and 80 years) …

Research on learning and memory has been a central focus of psychologists interested in
adult development and aging for both theoretical and practical reasons. Major reviews of …

Cognitive ageing research examines the cognitive abilities that are preserved and/or those
that decline with advanced age. There is great individual variability in cognitive ageing …

Memory difficulty is one of the most common complaints of older adults (eg Hertzog & Dixon,
1994), so the study of age-related changes in memory function is motivated by practical as …

Ther here is little doubt that with age, long-term memory function declines. Countless
behavioral studies have revealed significant differences in memory for lists of words (Smith …