Age Integration

Introduction: why study age integration?

Age differences in context integration in memory.

This research examined the role of contextual integration in memories of younger and older adults. In 2 experiments, recall of a target picture to a context picture cue was better when sentences were generated that integrated the picture pair and when the picture pairs were already related to each other. Age differences were smallest when sentences were generated for semantically related pairs....

Relationship Between Psychological Symptoms, Age, Severity of Symptoms, and Societal Integration in Patients With Facial Nerve Paralysis

Objectives: Facial Nerve Paralysis (FNP) may cause disfigurement of the face, which result in psychological disturbances and isolation because of society’s reaction to people’s physical appearance. This study aimed to determine the relationship between psychological symptoms, age, the severity of symptoms, and societal integration in people with FNP. Methods: The present research is a cross-se...

Fragmentation vs. Integration? Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

In the following, I will outline central hypotheses and results from an empirical project which focused on the influence of globalization on regionalist conflicts. To understand the connection between the two phenomena, globalization must be operationalised in a way that helps us identify aspects which could influence the state's capacity for territorial management as well as regionalist motive...

Age differences in virtual environment and real world path integration

Accurate path integration (PI) requires the integration of visual, proprioceptive, and vestibular self-motion cues and age effects associated with alterations in processing information from these systems may contribute to declines in PI abilities. The present study investigated age-related differences in PI in conditions that varied as a function of available sources of sensory information. Twe...