Psychological Science 2002

Second Thoughts versus Second Looks: An Age-Related Deficit in Reflectively Refreshing Just-Activated Information

Marcia K. Johnson¹; John A. Reeder²; Carol L. Raye¹; Karen Mitchell¹

¹ Yale University · ² University of Massachusetts Amherst

Abstract

Age-related deficits in memory are greater as encoding and retrieval tasks require more reflective (self-generated or executive) processing. One problem in developing more specific models of age-related changes in cognition is that the tasks studied tend to be complex and vary in the combinations of component cognitive processes they recruit. Here we report an age-related deficit in one of the most elementary, but critical, components of reflection: refreshing a just-activated representation. Impairment in such a process potentially has a wide-ranging impact on all higher-order cognition.

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10.1111/1467-9280.00411

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