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...

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Published in:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 175 - 186
Main Authors:	Stillman, Chelsea, Coane, Jennifer, Profaci, Caterina, Howard, James, Howard, Darlene
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Feb2014
Subjects:	Aging Analysis of variance Health behavior Memory Research funding Statistical sampling Scale analysis (Psychology) Statistical hypothesis testing T-test (Statistics) Pre-tests & post-tests Control groups Data analysis software Descriptive statistics
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