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Timing, instructions, and inhibitory control: some missing factors in the age and memory debate
Author(s)	L Hasher, R T Zacks, T A Rahhal
Journal title	Gerontology, vol 45, no 6, November/December 1999
Pages	pp 355-357
Keywords	Memory and Reminiscence ; Research.
Annotation	In the first 1999 issue of Gerontology several current hypotheses of age-related memory loss were canvassed. In the hope of fostering debate and further consideration of factors implicated in memory loss in late adulthood, commentaries were sought by this journal from a number of prominent cognitive ageing researchers. This last out of four commentaries point to three factors that have been found to influence the presence and size of age differences in memory tasks and, as such, have important implications for resolving theoretical questions about ageing and memory: age differences in circadian rhythms and testing time effects that are associated with such differences; instructions that may have a particularly disruptive effect on older adults; and inhibitory control differences that have an age-related impact on both estimates of working memory span and on performance in multitask studies. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-991201224 A
Classmark	DB: 3A
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