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Peggy L. St. Jacques
Harvard University www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~pstjacques What does your research focus on? My research examines the cognitive and neural mechanisms that support autobiographical memory; how memory is affected by age and emotion, and how memory retrieval influences how
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Karen M. Rodrigue
The University of Texas at Dallas http://vitallongevity.utdallas.edu/directory/view/category/faculty/karen-rodrigue What does your research focus on? My research focuses on how age-related changes in the brain relate to the cognitive decline that we observe over the lifespan in
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Des distractions pour aider la mémoire des seniors (Distraction Can Reduce Age-Related Forgetting)
Le Figaro: La mémoire est de moins en moins fiable avec l’âge, même s’il existe de grandes variations entre les individus. Autre inconvénient, peut-être moins connu, le fait que l’on se laisse plus facilement distraire
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Sustainable Satisfaction: How Aging Makes Your Mind More Charitable
The Huffington Post: What is it that draws so many of us to community causes as we age? Is it just an excess of wealth that inspires philanthropy, or are our brains actually learning to
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New Research on Aging From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research on cognitive and perceptual processes in aging published in Psychological Science. Distraction Can Reduce Age-Related Forgetting Renée K. Biss, K. W. Joan Ngo, Lynn Hasher, Karen L. Campbell, and Gillian Rowe
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How Facebook Improves Memory
TIME: Checking status updates on Facebook may be just the distraction your memory needs. Facebook and other social media are generally considered distractions, rather than aids, to building memory. Interrupting whatever you’re doing to check
