Courses

PSY470/PSY5205 Presentation Schedule

Memory Seminar /
Age changes in memory

University of Toronto, St. George Campus
January 2005 to April 2005
Tuesday 2-4 pm, Psychology Library

 

Week 3. January 18. What does aging look like (good and bad news)?

Shimamura, A. P., Berry, J. M., Mangels, J. A., Rusting, C. L., & Jurica, P. J. (1995). Memory and cognitive abilities in university professors: Evidence for successful aging. Psychological Science, 6, 271-277.
Presented by: Pierre Redman
Cabeza, R., Anderson, N. D., Locantore, J. K., & McIntosh, A. R. (2002). Aging gracefully: Compensatory brain activity in high performing older adults. Neuroimage, 17, 1394-1402.
Presented by: Gene Norvaisa
Johnson, M. K., Mitchell, K. J., Raye, C. L., & Greene, E. J. (2004). An age-related deficit in prefrontal cortical function associated with refreshing information. Psychological Science, 15, 127-132.
Presented by: Kamal Shaikh

Week 4. January 25. Distraction and Aging

Carlson, M. C., Hasher, L., Connelly, S. L., & Zacks, R. T. (1995). Aging, distraction and the benefits of predictable location. Psychology and Aging, 10, 427-436.
Presented by: Jaewoo Joo
Tun, P. A., O’Kane, G., & Wingfield, A. (2002). Distraction by competing speech in young and older adult listeners. Psychology and Aging, 17, 453-467.
Presented by: Kate Dupuis
Lustig, C., Hasher, L., & May, C. P. (2001). Working memory span and the role of proactive interference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 199-207.
Presented by: Constance Nguyen

Week 5. Feb 1. Interference effects in Aging and Memory

Marsh, E. J., Dolan, P. O., Balota, D. A ., & Roediger, H. L. (2004). Part-set cuing effects in younger and older adults. Psych and Aging, 19, 134-144.
Presented by: Patrick Chesnais
Lustig, C., Konkel A., & Jacoby, L. L. (2004). Which route to recovery? Controlled retrieval and accessibility bias in retroactive interference. Psychological Science, 15, 729-735.
Presented by: Maggie Wenjing Liu

Week 6. Feb 8. Attentional Regulation/Inhibition

Hasher,L., Zacks, R. T., & May, C. P. (1999). Inhibitory control, circadian arousal, and age. In D. Gopher and A. Koriat (Eds.), Attention and performance XVII: Cognitive regulation of performance: Interaction of theory and application. Attention and performance (pp. 653-675). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Presented by: Magda Rylska
Gazzaley, Cooney, J. W., et al. (In press). Top-down enhancement and suppression of the magnitude and speed of neural activity.
Presented by: Kyra Lee
Anderson, M. C., Ochsner, K. N., Kuhl, B., Cooper, J., Robertson, E., Gabrieli, S. W., et al. (2004). Neural systems underlying the suppression of unwanted memories. Science, 303, 232-235.
Presented by: Alex Szegiclewicz

Week 8. Feb 22. Emotion

Gray, J. R. (2004). Integration of emotion and cognitive control. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 46-48.
Presented by: Leanne Wilkins
Mather, M., & Carstensen, L. L. (2003). Aging and attentional biases for emotional faces. Psychological Science, 14, 409-415.
Presented by: Simona Mindy
Charles, S. T., Mather, M., & Carstensen, L. L. (2003). Aging and emotional memory: The forgettable nature of negative images for older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 310-324.
Presented by: Marnie Rubio
Mather, M., Canli, T., English, T., Whitfield, S., Wais, P., et al (2004). Amygdala responses to emotionally valenced stimuli in older and younger adults. Psychological Science, 15, 259- 267.
Presented by: Lily Riggs

Week 9. March 1. Social Context effects (stereotypes)

Levy, B. R. (2003). Mind matters: Cognitive and physical effects of aging self-sterotypes. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 58B, 203-211.
Presented by: Irina Nica
Adams, C., Smith M. C., Pasupathi, M., & Vitolo, L. (2002). Social context effects on story recall in older and younger women: Does the listener make a difference? Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 57B, P28-P40.
Presented by: Julia Shen

Week 10. March 8. Wisdom and Culture

Kitayama, S. (2000). Cultural variations in cognition: Implications for aging research. In P.C. Stern & L.L. Cartensen (Eds.), The aging mind: Opportunities in cognitive research (pp. 218-237). Washington, D. C.: National Academy Press.
Presented by: Aroosha Sadaghianloo
May, C. P., Rahhal, T. Berry, E. M., & Leighton, E. A. (2004). Aging, source memory and emotion. Submitted.

Helmuth, L. (2003, February 28). The wisdom of the wizened. Science, 299, 1300-1302.

Allen, S (2005) Greater risk seen with older doctors (Media article, source below).

Recommended (required for graduate students):

Staudinger, U. M., Macial, A. G., Smith, J., & Baltes, P. B. (1998). What predicts wisdom-related performance? A first look at personality, intelligence, and facilitative experiential contexts. European Journal of Personality, 12, 1-17.

Research source of media article (optional for all):

Coudhry, N. K., Fletcher, R. H., &Soumerat, S. B. (2005). Systematic review: The relationship between clinical experience and quality of health care. Annals of Internal Medicine, 142, 260-273.

Week 11. March 15. Health, Cognition and Aging

Zelinski, E. M., Crimmins, E., Reynolds, S., & Seeman, T. (1998). Do medical conditions affect cognition in older adults? Health Psychology, 17, 504-512.
Presented by: David Chan
Kramer, A. F., Hahn, S., Cohen, N. J., Banich, M. T., McAuley, E., Harrison, C. R., et al. (1999, July 29). Ageing, fitness, and neurocognitive function. Nature, 400, 418-419.
Also presented by: David Chan
Solfrizzi, V., Panza, F., & Capurso, A. (2003). The role of diet in cognitive decline. Journal of Neural Transmission, 110, 95-110.
Presented by: Sze-Ling Tam

Week 12. March 22.

No class this week.

Week 13. March 29. Is there help????

May, C. P. (1999). Synchrony effects in cognition: the costs and a benefit. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 6, 142-147.
Presented by: Norm Farb; norman@acl.psych.utoronto.ca
Lupien, S., De Leon, M. J., de Santi, S., Convit, A., Tarshish, C., et al. (1998). Cortisol levels during human aging predict atrophy and memory deficits. Nature Neuroscience, 1, 69-73.
Also presented by: Norm Farb; norman@acl.psych.utoronto.ca
Week 14. April 5. Is there help????

Morrow, D. G., Ridolfo, H. E., Menard, W. E., Sanborn, A., et al. (2003). Environmental support promotes expertise-based mitigation of age differences on pilot communication tasks. Psychology and Aging, 18, 268-284.

Presented by: Constance Nguyen; constance.nguyen@utoronto.ca

Dodson, C. S., & Schachter, D. L. (2002). Aging and strategic retrieval processes: Reducing false memories with a distinctiveness heuristic. Psychology and Aging, 17, 405-415.

Kramer, A. F., & Willis, S. L. (2002). Enhancing the cognitive vitality of older adults. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 173-177.
Presented by: Ali Houmed; abiziana@hotmail.com
 
Recommended (required for graduate students):

Jennings, J. M., & Jacoby, L. L. (2003). Improving memory in older adults: Training recollection. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 13, 417-440.

Liu, L, L., & Park, D. C. (2004). Aging and medical adherence: The use of automatic processes to achieve effortful things. Psychology and Aging, 19, 318-325.

 

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