Learning and Memory Beyond Young Adulthood

Chapters and Reviews

Duarte A & Kensinger EA (2019). Age-related changes in episodic memory (Ch. 4, pgs. 111-134). In The Aging Brain: Functional Adaptation Across Adulthood. (Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Ed.). American Psycological Association.

Kensinger EA, Ford J & Daley RT (2020). Emotion and Memory (Ch. 13, pgs 236-253). In The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging. (Thomas AK & Gutchess A, Eds.) Cambridge University Press.

Relevant Studies

Daley, R. T., Bowen, H. J., Fields, E. C., Parisi, K. R., Gutchess, A., & Kensinger, E. A. (2020). Neural mechanisms supporting emotional and self-referential information processing and encoding in older and younger adults. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 15(4), 405–421.

Ford JH, Kensinger EA (2019). Older adults recruit dorsomedial prefrontal cortex to decrease negativity during retrieval of emotionally complex real-world events. Neuropsychologia, 135, 107239.