title: [Effects of cognitive aging on memory performances].
abstract: PSYCHOLOGY OF AGING: This article sums up studies on influence of normal aging in memory. Aging is a process involving many dimensions: Psychological, Biological and Social. These elements interact with each other and needed to be considered in the description of human memory aging. COGNITIVE APPROACH OF HUMAN MEMORY: Moreover, researches on human memory have been conducted within the framework of current theoretical views of memory. The present review provides an outline of the cognitive neuropsychology models of memory, its nature, components and organization. CLINICAL APPROACH OF AGING AND MEMORY, CONSEQUENCES: This introduction may help the reader to understand more clearly empirical evidence of age-related differences in memory and attentional functioning. In closing, the human factors psychologists must be take in account while adopting a global approach of the understanding of memory aging. Psychological field provides a complete structure for assessing human being and is helpful before to conclude between normal or pathological memory aging.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Psychologie de la Sorbonne, Centre Universitaire de Boulogne, Billancourt. chris.nargeot@wanadoo.fr
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Gély-Nargeot
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mure
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guérin-Langlois
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Descours
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology; D016011:Normal Distribution