Editor's choice Memory for Allergies and Health Foods: How Younger and Older Adults Strategically Remember Critical Health Information

Catherine D. Middlebrooks, Shannon McGillivray, Kou Murayama and Alan D. Castel

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2016, vol. 71, issue 3, 389-399

Abstract: Objectives. While older adults often display memory deficits, with practice, they can sometimes selectively remember valuable information at the expense of less value information. We examined age-related differences and similarities in memory for health-related information under conditions where some information was critical to remember.

Date: 2016
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