What Effect Does Aging Have On Memory? ‘It seems, then, that we owe to memory almost all that we either have or are; that our ideas and conceptions are its work, and that our everyday perception, thought, and movement is derived from this source. Memory collects the countless phenomena of our existence into a single whole; and, as our bodies would be scattered into the dust of their component atoms if they were not held together by the attraction of matter, so our consciousness would be broken up into as many fragments as we have lived seconds but for the binding and unifying force of memory’. (Hering, 1920, as cited in Atkinson et al., 1993) Hering’s words illustrate the importance of memory in mental life. Normal ageing is a gradual process that brings about changes to the human body and mind. The belief that mental abilities decline with age....

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