Jennifer Weeks

The disruptive – and beneficial – effects of distraction on older adults’ cognitive performance

Jennifer Weeks, Lynn Hasher · Frontiers in Psychology · 2014 · 70 citations · Full text

Cognition, Attention, Social Sciences +17

Face–name learning in older adults: a benefit of hyper-binding

Jennifer Weeks, Renée K. Biss, Kelly J. Murphy et al. · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 2016 · 46 citations · Full text

Face Detection, Cognitive Science, Engineering +5

Holding On to the Past: Older Adults Show Lingering Neural Activation of No-Longer-Relevant Items in Working Memory

Jennifer Weeks, Cheryl L. Grady, Lynn Hasher et al. · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · 2020 · 36 citations

Cognitive Science, No-longer-relevant Items, Memory System +15

Leveraging older adults’ susceptibility to distraction to improve memory for face-name associations.

Renée K. Biss, Gillian Rowe, Jennifer Weeks et al. · Psychology and Aging · 2018 · 28 citations

Memory Retrieval, Geriatric Psychiatry, Individual Differences +25

Older adults encode more, not less: evidence for age-related attentional broadening

Jennifer Weeks, Lynn Hasher · Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition · 2017 · 25 citations

Aging, Ageism, Selective Attention +18