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| Alan D CastelSummaryAffiliation: Washington University School of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Memory for grocery prices in younger and older adults: the role of schematic supportAlan D Castel
U Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Psychol Aging 20:718-21. 2005..The results suggest that when older adults can rely on prior knowledge and schematic support, and tasks involve naturalistic materials, memory for associative information can be as good as that of younger adults...- Examining task difficulty and the time course of inhibition of return: detecting perceptually degraded targetsAlan D Castel
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130 4899, USA
Can J Exp Psychol 59:90-8. 2005..The results are consistent with the notion that IOR is not simply a reflexive subcortical mechanism but rather involves top-down attentional control settings... - The effects of action video game experience on the time course of inhibition of return and the efficiency of visual searchAlan D Castel
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G3
Acta Psychol (Amst) 119:217-30. 2005..The findings suggest that relative to NVGPs, VGPs rely on similar types of visual processing strategies but possess faster stimulus-response mappings in visual attention tasks... - The development of memory efficiency and value-directed remembering across the life span: a cross-sectional study of memory and selectivityAlan D Castel
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Dev Psychol 47:1553-64. 2011..The dissociation between these measures across the life span illustrates important age-related differences in terms of memory capacity and the ability to selectively remember high-value information... - Memory efficiency and the strategic control of attention at encoding: impairments of value-directed remembering in Alzheimer's diseaseAlan D Castel
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Neuropsychology 23:297-306. 2009..This pattern suggests that relative to healthy aging, AD leads to impairments in strategic control at encoding and value-directed remembering... - Are we aware of our ability to forget? Metacognitive predictions of directed forgettingMichael C Friedman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Mem Cognit 39:1448-56. 2011.... - Aging and memory for numerical information: the role of specificity and expertise in associative memoryAlan D Castel
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 62:P194-6. 2007..However, a group of older retired accountants and bookkeepers showed exceptional memory for quantity information. The findings suggest that the associative deficit in old age is based on the linking of specific arbitrary information... - Memory predictions are influenced by perceptual information: evidence for metacognitive illusionsMatthew G Rhodes
Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523 1876, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 137:615-25. 2008..Thus, highly accessible perceptual cues can strongly influence JOLs, likely via encoding fluency, and this effect can lead to metacognitive illusions.. - Adult age differences in the time course of inhibition of returnAlan D Castel
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 58:P256-9. 2003..Older adults also showed a greater degree of facilitation at shorter stimulus-onset asynchronies. The results suggest that there is a change in the temporal dynamics of inhibition that occurs with age... - Memory for general and specific value information in younger and older adults: measuring the limits of strategic controlAlan D Castel
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
Mem Cognit 35:689-700. 2007..The findings suggest that although both groups retain high-value information, older adults rely more on gist-based encoding and retrieval operations, whereas younger adults are able to remember specific numeric value information... - Metacognition and learning about primacy and recency effects in free recall: the utilization of intrinsic and extrinsic cues when making judgments of learningAlan D Castel
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
Mem Cognit 36:429-37. 2008..The findings are interpreted in a cue utilization framework and suggest that under certain conditions, participants can predict primacy and recency effects... - Memory capacity, selective control, and value-directed remembering in children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)Alan D Castel
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Neuropsychology 25:15-24. 2011..The present study examined how children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) performed on an incentive-based selectivity task in which to-be-remembered items were worth different point values... - Spacing as the friend of both memory and induction in young and older adultsNate Kornell
Department of Psychology, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA
Psychol Aging 25:498-503. 2010..Thus, challenging learners of any age appears to have unintuitive benefits for both memory and induction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)... - Inhibition of return with rapid serial shifts of attention: implications for memory and visual searchMichael D Dodd
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Percept Psychophys 65:1126-35. 2003..These findings indicate that IOR can be observed at multiple locations when attention is shifted rapidly between locations... - The ease-of-processing heuristic and the stability bias: dissociating memory, memory beliefs, and memory judgmentsNate Kornell
Department of Psychology, Williams College, MA 01267, USA
Psychol Sci 22:787-94. 2011..The overreliance on type size highlights the fundamental importance of the ease-of-processing heuristic: Information that is easy to process is judged to have been learned well... - Memory and metamemory for inverted words: illusions of competency and desirable difficultiesVictor W Sungkhasettee
Department of Psychology, University of California, 1285 Franz Hall Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 18:973-8. 2011..We interpret these results in terms of processing fluency, desirable difficulties, and theories of metacognitive monitoring... - Memory for age-face associations in younger and older adults: the role of generation and schematic supportShannon McGillivray
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychol Aging 25:822-32. 2010..Thus, although older adults display an associative deficit when remembering specific age-face associations, this can be reduced through the use of prior knowledge and generation at encoding... - Spatial attention and response control in healthy younger and older adults and individuals with Alzheimer's disease: evidence for disproportionate selection impairments in the Simon taskAlan D Castel
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Neuropsychology 21:170-82. 2007..The findings are discussed in terms of the special nature of the response requirements of the Simon task to better illuminate the attentional decrements in both healthy aging and early stage AD... - A strategy disruption component to retrieval-induced forgettingMichael D Dodd
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mem Cognit 34:102-11. 2006..These results are inconsistent with a purely inhibitory account of retrieval-induced forgetting, and we discuss implications for inhibition theory and strategy disruption in light of these and other findings... - The role of spatial working memory in inhibition of return: evidence from divided attention tasksAlan D Castel
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Percept Psychophys 65:970-81. 2003..Overall, the results suggest that IOR is partially mediated by a spatial working memory system... - Betting on memory leads to metacognitive improvement by younger and older adultsShannon McGillivray
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychol Aging 26:137-42. 2011..The incorporation of rewards and penalties associated with metacognitive predictions, and multiple study-test trials, revealed that both younger and older adults can learn to maximize performance... - Associative recognition of face pairs by younger and older adults: the role of familiarity-based processingMatthew G Rhodes
Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1876, USA
Psychol Aging 23:239-49. 2008..Such data suggest that memory for face pairs relies largely on the familiarity of each face and not on a more precise recollection of associative information. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)... - The effects of aging and divided attention on memory for item and associative informationAlan D Castel
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 Saint George Street, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada
Psychol Aging 18:873-85. 2003..The results are discussed in terms of an age-related reduction in processing resources compounded by an age-related increase in older adults' reliance on familiarity in associative recognition memory... - The influence of FMRI lie detection evidence on juror decision-makingDavid P McCabe
Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, USA
Behav Sci Law 29:566-77. 2011..These results provide important information about the influence of lie detection evidence in legal settings... - Metacognition and part-set cuing: can interference be predicted at retrieval?Matthew G Rhodes
Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1876, USA
Mem Cognit 36:1429-38. 2008.... - Seeing is believing: the effect of brain images on judgments of scientific reasoningDavid P McCabe
Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Campus Box 1876, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1876, USA
Cognition 107:343-52. 2008..We argue that brain images are influential because they provide a physical basis for abstract cognitive processes, appealing to people's affinity for reductionistic explanations of cognitive phenomena... - The effects of aging on selectivity and control in short-term recallAlan D Castel
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mem Cognit 30:1078-85. 2002..Overall, the data suggest that although older adults recall fewer words than do younger adults, they exert as much control over some aspects of encoding... - Illusions of competence and overestimation of associative memory for identical items: evidence from judgments of learningAlan D Castel
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 14:107-11. 2007..We conclude that overconfidence for identical pairs reflects an assessment of item similarity when JOLs are made, despite associative strength being a better predictor of later retrieval... - Capture of attention by new motion in young and older adultsShawn E Christ
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, 210 McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 63:P110-6. 2008..We discuss the findings within the context of our present understanding of visual attention and aging... - The effects of memory load on the time course of inhibition of returnRaymond M Klein
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Psychon Bull Rev 13:294-9. 2006..Converging evidence was derived from a second experiment in which the time course of IOR's appearance, when we added a central cue to exogenously remove attention from the peripheral cue, was unaffected by the memory load... - Perceiving numbers causes spatial shifts of attentionMartin H Fischer
Psychology Department, University of Dundee, DD1 4HN Scotland
Nat Neurosci 6:555-6. 2003..This observation implies obligatory activation of number meaning and signals a tight coupling of internal and external representations of space... - The dark side of expertise: domain-specific memory errorsAlan D Castel
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA
Psychol Sci 18:3-5. 2007 - Memory for proper names in old age: a disproportionate impairment?Peter G Rendell
Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
Q J Exp Psychol A 58:54-71. 2005..Familiarity largely determined the proportions of recognizable items that were named in a prior phase. Overall, little evidence was found for a disproportionate age-related impairment in naming in either episodic or semantic memory... - Long-term inhibition of return for spatial locations: evidence for a memory retrieval accountDaryl E Wilson
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 59:2135-47. 2006..These results are consistent with a memory retrieval account of IOR and suggest that the same inhibitory mechanism may underlie both standard and long-term IOR...