ABSTRACT
I am delighted to participate in the conference and contribute to the resulting volume honoring Gus Craik, who is widely recognized as a leading experimental psychologist investigating both basic processes in memory and the effects of increased age on memory. I have long been an admirer of Craik’s creative experiments and intuitively appealing theoretical interpretations, and like many others I have enjoyed and benefited from collaborations with him, in my case as a coeditor of the first and second editions of the Handbook of Aging and Cognition (Craik & Salthouse, 1992, 2000). Because he is as nice interpersonally as he is esteemed scientifically, I can think of no person more deserving of this type of recognition.
