ABSTRACT

Understanding how memories are established and subsequently applied constitutes a major challenge confronting a general theory of cognition. Understanding how the two processes alter over the life-span is a major challenge facing a general theory of aging. The chapters in this part indicate the ways in which contemporary research is attempting to meet these challenges. This part is divided into two sections: one on working memory and comprising chapters 9–12, the other on attention at encoding and at retrieval and comprising chapters 14–16.