Characterizing Age-Related Changes in Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 80-84

  Gaesser, Brendan ^a   Sacchetti, Daniel C ^a   Addis, Donna Rose ^b   Schacter, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aging; Autobiographical interview; Autobiographical memory; Imagining; Picture description

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953146629     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021054     Document Type: Article

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