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

The generation effect refers to the finding that subjects who generate information (eg,
produce synonyms) remember the information better than they do material that they simply …

The generation effect is the memory benefit for self-generated compared with read or
experimenter-provided information. In recent decades, numerous theories have been …

The first goal of this experiment was to examine the effect of age on recall and clustering
across three successive trials. Sixty-two young (age 20–40 years) and 62 elderly (age 60 …

Cognitive Aging and the Role of Strategy is the English Language edition of 'Vieillissement
cognitif et variations stratégiques', oriiginally published in French. Lemaire is a well …

The generation effect is a robust memory phenomenon in which actively producing material
during encoding acts to improve later memory performance. In a functional magnetic …

Research suggests that personality traits are associated with memory performance,
particularly as people age. In two studies, we examined two personality traits (openness to …

We explored whether experiencing differential efficacy of reading and generation for
memory in an initial learning trial led younger and older adults to improve recall of read …

In the modern era of psychology, researchers have used experiments to increase
understanding of human memory, leading to the discovery of many memory phenomena …

This experiment examines whether the age-related decrease in the generation effect of
rhymes is mediated by executive functioning. Young and elderly adults read and generated …