Constructive episodic simulation: Dissociable effects of a specificity induction on remembering, imagining, and describing in young and older adults

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 609-622

  Madore, Kevin P ^a   Gaesser, Brendan ^a   Schacter, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Autobiographical memory; Episodic specificity induction; Imagination; Picture description

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906687048     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034885     Document Type: Article

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