DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES

9.10 and 9.100 COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

SPRING SEMESTER 1999

 

Friday, May 7

Effects of Aging on Memory

Suzanne Corkin

 

Required Reading for Undergraduates and Graduate Students

Huppert, F. A.  (1991).  Age-related changes in memory: Learning and remembering new information.  In Boller, P. & Grafman, J. (Eds.), Handbook of Neuropsychology, Vol. 5 (pp. 123-147).  St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. (Biomedical Division).

Craik, F. I. M., Morris, R. G., Morris, L. W., & Loewen, E. R.  (1990).  Relations between source amnesia and frontal lobe functioning in older adults.  Psychology and Aging, 5, 148-151.

Loewen, E. R., Shaw, R. J., & Craik, F. I. M.  (1990).  Age differences in components of metamemory.  Experimental Aging Research, 16, 43-48.

Wingfield, A., Stine, E. A. L., Lahar, C. J., & Aberdeen, J. S. (1988)  Does the capacity of working memory change with age?  Experimental Aging Research, 14, 103-107.
 
 

 Required Readings for Graduate Students (Recommended for Undergraduates)

Arriagada, P. V., Hyman, B. T., & Marzloff, K.  (1992)  Distribution of Alzheimer-type pathologic changes in nondemented elderly individuals matches the pattern in Alzheimer's disease.  Neurology, 42, 1681-1688.
 
 
 

 



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