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New study examines memory, learning and aging

In a recent Psychology and Aging study funded by the National Institute on Aging, Dr. John Dunlosky, Kent State professor of psychology and associate editor of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, and colleagues examined whether aging affects metacomprehension, or the ability to judge your own comprehension and learning of text materials.

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