Characterizing age-related changes in remembering the past and imagining the future.
Psychol Aging
; 26(1): 80-4, 2011 Mar.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21058863
ABSTRACT
When remembering past events or imagining possible future events, older adults generate fewer episodic details than do younger adults. These results support the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis:
deficits in retrieving episodic details underlie changes during memory and imagination. To examine the extent of this age-related reduction in specificity, we compared performance on memory and imagination tasks to a picture description task that does not require episodic memory. In two experiments, older adults exhibited comparable specificity reductions across all conditions. These findings emphasize the need to consider age-related changes in imagination and memory in a broader theoretical context.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Envelhecimento
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Imaginação
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Memória
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Psychol Aging
Assunto da revista:
GERIATRIA
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PSICOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2011
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos