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Tucker-Drob, Elliot M.; Reynolds, Chandra A.; Finkel, Deborah; Pedersen, Nancy L. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Aging-related declines occur in many different domains of cognitive function during middle and late adulthood. However, whether a global dimension underlies individual differences in changes in different domains of cognition and whether global genetic influences on cognitive changes exist is less clear. We addressed these issues by applying…
Descriptors: Genetics, Environmental Influences, Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Ability
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Del Missier, Fabio; Mäntylä, Timo; Hansson, Patrik; Bruine de Bruin, Wändi; Parker, Andrew M.; Nilsson, Lars-Göran – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Several judgment and decision-making tasks are assumed to involve memory functions, but significant knowledge gaps on the memory processes underlying these tasks remain. In a study on 568 adults between 25 and 80 years of age, hypotheses were tested on the specific relationships between individual differences in working memory, episodic memory,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Memory, Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Processes
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Ronnlund, Michael; Nilsson, Lars-Goran. – Neuropsychologia, 2009
The study examined the extent to which time-related gains in cognitive performance, so-called Flynn effects, generalize across sub-factors of episodic memory (recall and recognition) and semantic memory (knowledge and fluency). We conducted time-sequential analyses of data drawn from the Betula prospective cohort study, involving four age-matched…
Descriptors: Semantics, Memory, Semiotics, Cognitive Processes
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Sandberg, Anette; Vuorinen, Tuula – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2008
The purpose of this article is to describe and analyse play through a contemporary historical perspective, based upon pre-school teachers', students majoring in education, and teacher education students' descriptions of memories from their childhood regarding play and toys. The overall method is retrospective. The data consists of 111 interviews…
Descriptors: Play, Toys, Recall (Psychology), Child Development
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Backman, Lars; Mantyla, Timo – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1988
Younger (N=24) and older subjects (N=24) generated one or three properties to set of 40 nouns. Subjects received incidental recall test immediately after, 1 week after, or 3 weeks after generation. Younger subjects recalled more nouns than did older subjects in all conditions, although both age groups exhibited high immediate recall. (Author/ ABL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Cues, Foreign Countries
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Finkel, Deborah; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Plomin, Robert; McClearn, Gerald E. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Collected data on twins' performance on 13 cognitive variables measured three times at three-year intervals. Twins were monozygotic or dizygotic pairs reared together or apart and were in six cohorts ranging in age from 41 through 84 years. Found stable mean cognitive performance across time on eight measures for the younger cohorts, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries