| Literature DB >> 11892780 |
Marcia K Johnson1, John A Reeder, Carol L Raye, Karen J Mitchell.
Abstract
Age-related deficits in memory are greater as encoding and retrieval tasks require more reflective (self-generated or executive) processing. One problem in developing more specific models of age-related changes in cognition is that the tasks studied tend to be complex and vary in the combinations of component cognitive processes they recruit. Here we report an age-related deficit in one of the most elementary, but critical, components of reflection: refreshing a just-activated representation. Impairment in such a process potentially has a wide-ranging impact on all higher-order cognition.Mesh:
Year: 2002 PMID: 11892780 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00411
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychol Sci ISSN: 0956-7976