ABSTRACT
Jacoby’s work has been remarkably influential not only in its depth within the area of memory but in linking important principles across diverse fields. For example, Jacoby has influenced our understanding of work in categorization, social psychology, aging, neuropsychology, and attention. The present chapter also focuses on the importance of cross-fertilization. Here, we will emphasize the intersection of attention and memory in understanding healthy aging and early stage Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Our goal is to bring to fore some relatively novel approaches to understanding the cognitive changes and underlying neural mechanisms across these different populations.
