The effects of healthy aging on the mnemonic benefit of survival processing.
A number of studies have shown that information is remembered better when it is processed for its survival relevance than when it is processed for relevance to other, non-survival-related contexts. Here we conducted three experiments to investigate whether the survival advantage also occurs for heal...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 175 - 186 |
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