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| Toward understanding age-related memory loss in late adulthood | | Author(s) | Mary A Luszcz, Janet Bryan |
| Journal title | Gerontology, vol 45, no 1, January/February 1999 |
| Pages | pp 2-9 |
| Keywords | Memory disorders ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Mental speed ; Ageing process ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this review is to present findings relevant to three current views that might explain the relationship between age and remembering. They can be construed as variants on resource theories and include: the processing space hypothesis, the executive function hypothesis, and the common cause hypothesis. The balance of the research strongly implicates reductions in the speed of information processing as a fundamental contributor to normal age-related memory loss. Nonetheless, there are circumstances where other mechanisms, such as working memory, executive function, and sensory processes are important. Despite the phenomenological and empirical reality of age-related memory loss and the breadth of attempt to explain it, much work remains to be done to understand why it occurs. Contemporary debates about the nature and means of identifying shared and unique effects promise to shape future directions for research on memory ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990212501 A |
| Classmark | EH: DB: DG: BG: 64A |
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