Intake of saturated fats and simple carbohydrates, two of the primary components of a
modern Western diet, is linked with the development of obesity and Alzheimer's Disease …

While there are many books on retrospective memory, or remembering past events,
Prospective Memory: An Overview and Synthesis of an Emerging Field is the first authored …

Abstract Background Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment
and Disability (FINGER) is a multi-center, randomized, controlled trial ongoing in Finland …

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 …

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number
of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues have been generated in the past …

Prospective memory situations involve forming intentions and then realizing those intentions
at some appropriate time in the future. An interesting feature of most prospective …

Prospective memory tasks are often accomplished during the performance of other activities.
Despite the dual-task nature of prospective memory, little attention has been paid to how …

A meta-analysis of prospective memory (PM) studies revealed that in laboratory settings
younger participants outperform older participants on tests of both time-and event-based PM …

Theoretically, prospective memory retrieval can be accomplished either by controlled
monitoring of the environment for a target event or by a more reflexive process that …

Research on cognitive aging seems to have three primary goals: first, to determine the
extent to which the diversity of observed behavioral changes that occur with advancing age …