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Goal-directed memory: The role of cognitive control in older adults' emotional memory.

Mather, Mara, Knight, Marisa·2005·Psychology and Aging

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The present study revealed that older adults recruit cognitive control processes to strengthen positive and diminish negative information in memory. In Experiment 1, older adults engaged in more elaborative processing when retrieving positive memories than they did when retrieving negative memories. In Experiment 2, older adults who did well on tasks involving cognitive control were more likely than those doing poorly to favor positive pictures in memory. In Experiment 3, older adults who were distracted during memory encoding no longer favored positive over negative pictures in their later recall, revealing that older adults use cognitive resources to implement emotional goals during encoding. In contrast, younger adults showed no signs of using cognitive control to make their memories more positive, indicating that, for them, emotion regulation goals are not chronically activated.

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Authors
Mather, M., & Knight, M.
Venue
Psychology and Aging
Published
2005-12
Volume
20
Issue
4
Pages
554-570
ISSN
  • 0882-7974 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1498
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W2163665783
Cited by
613
References
115
FWCI
9.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
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