Though often reliable, human memory is also fallible. This article examines how and why
memory can get us into trouble. It is suggested that memory's misdeeds can be classified …

A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist's “gripping and thought-provoking” look at
how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works). In …

Language in old age has been an active research area since early experimental
investigations in cognitive aging (eg, Craik & Masani, 1967; Riegel & Riegel, 1964). This is …

This well-established and accessible text has been completely revised in this expanded fifth
edition. Each chapter has been updated, often extensively, to reflect current thinking, and an …

Previous studies have established an associative deficit hypothesis (Naveh-Benjamin,
2000), which attributes part of older adults' deficient episodic memory performance to their …

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 …

Clinton: No. I do have a good memory. At least I have had a good memory in my life... It's
also—if I could say one thing about my memory—I have been blessed and advantaged in …

Describes a theory of cognitive aging, the Transmission Deficit hypothesis, comparing it to
other theories and demonstrating its account of evidence relating aging and language …

Publisher Summary Many of the broad models of cognitive aging are simply too general to
account for the diverse range of data. General slowing cannot readily account for processing …

The question of whether lexical access for proper names is more impaired by ageing than
lexical acess for other words is controversial. The aim of the present investigation was to …