The brain has finite processing resources so that, as tasks become harder, performance
degrades. Where do the limits on these resources come from? We focus on a variety of …

Cognitive control, the ability to limit attention to goal-relevant information, aids performance
on a wide range of laboratory tasks. However, there are many day-to-day functions which …

We develop a novel, computationally explicit, theory of age-related memory change within
the framework of the context maintenance and retrieval (CMR2) model of memory search …

Previous work has shown that older adults encode lexical and semantic information about
verbal distractors and use that information to facilitate performance on subsequent tasks. In …

Inhibitory theory suggests that a major determinant of individual differences in cognitive
performance (including differences that are typically observed with increasing age) is the …

The standard textbook account of interference and forgetting is based on the assumption
that retrieval of a memory trace is affected by competition by other memory traces. In recent …

Consolidating memories for long-term storage depends on reactivation. Reactivation occurs
both consciously, during wakefulness, and unconsciously, during wakefulness and sleep …

Difficulty with memory retrieval is a salient feature of cognitive aging and may be related to a
reduction in the ability to suppress items that compete for retrieval. To test this hypothesis …

An enormous amount of research has been aimed at identifying biological and
environmental factors that are contributing to the current global obesity pandemic. The …

Retrieving information from memory can cause the forgetting of other information in memory,
a phenomenon referred to as retrieval-induced forgetting. Over the past 20 years, retrieval …