Age-related declines in cognitive functioning have been well documented, however, there are vast individual differences in the age of onset and magnitude of these changes. This observation has spurred the investigation of ...

Previous research has found that older adults are more susceptible to proactive interference. This is likely due to age-related deficits in the PFC-mediated cognitive control processes recruited to resolve interference. ...

Existing everyday memory questionnaires and interview studies lack the depth of knowledge necessary to understand the ways in which older adults use their memories during their everyday lives. These assessments do not ...

According to the inhibitory deficit hypothesis, older adults have difficulties in preventing task-irrelevant materials from gaining access to working memory (Lustig, Hasher, & Zacks, 2007). Some neuroscientific evidence, ...

Past research indicates that emotionally-relevant stimuli attract visual attention, but also that the relationship between emotion and attention allocation varies between young and older adults. Although both young and ...

The DRM paradigm is used to examine false memory—when a list of highly associated words (e.g. SEWING, THREAD, THIMBLE) is studied, a nonpresented but associated false target (e.g. NEEDLE) is often confidently (but incorrectly) ...

This experiment will use event-related brain potential (ERP) measures to investigate the time course of emotional expression processing across six emotions (happy, sad, anger, fear, disgust, and neutral) in young and older ...