Aging, metamemory, and high-confidence errors: A misrecollection account

Article Abstract:

Older adults show effective monitoring of memories of well-learned information, but are deficient in monitoring memories of recently encountered information. This age-related metamonitoring impairment correlates with the misrecollection account of cognitive aging, suggesting older adults' vulnerability to making high-confidence errors when answering questions about recently learned events.

Metacognition

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Aging can spare recollection-based retrieval monitoring: The importance of event distinctiveness

Article Abstract:

The effects of aging on two retrieval- monitoring processes are investigated using a recollection task with red words and pictures. Memory confusions are found to be lower on the picture test than on the red word test, and mutually exclusive study formats, thus implying the importance of distinctiveness criteria for memory in older adults.

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Modeling age-related memory deficits: A two-parameter solution

Article Abstract:

A computational 2-parameter model of cognitive aging is developed to capture the independent pattern of normal age-related change in episodic and semantic memory performance. The extent to which certain patterns of well-known age deficits can be explained without appealing to neurodegeneration is examined.

Semantic memory

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