Impact of grandchildren on episodic memory and future-time perspective of older adults.
This study was designed to investigate the effects of aging in episodic memory and future-time perspective. More specifically, we investigated the impact of grandchildren at encoding on future-time perspective and free recall in older adults. We asked younger and older adults to imagine being strand...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 73 - 85 |
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Springer Nature
Jan2026
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