Remembering Jim Morgan and Our True North

Remembering Our Roots

Special Issue: Remembering Our Roots

Dr. Sidney Katz’s legacy to the field of gerontology is internationally recognized as his success at developing standardized measures and processes, beginning with the activities of daily living index, for the functional assessment of older adults with chronic conditions necessitating long-term services and supports. That work served as the bedrock for his subsequent major accomplishments, whic...

Staying true to our roots

JEM © The Rockefeller University Press $15.00 Vol. 204, No. 1, January 22, 2007 1–2 www.jem.org/cgi/doi/10.1084/jem.20070030 1 In high school, well-rounded students are often labeled according to their most apparent skills. Other talents— the smart kid’s tennis prowess or the athlete’s straight As in chemistry—are often overlooked. Likewise, The Journal of Experimental Medicine is considered by...

Remembering our roots: a recipe for the future.

Science moves forward as scholars build on the work of those who preceded them. Students are taught that familiarity with the literature allows an investigator to avoid needless repetition of work that has been done before and to contribute something new. Citations to earlier work provide support for the validity of arguments and avenues for interested readers to pursue. Against this fundamenta...

Remembering remembering.

We developed a laboratory analogue of the "forgot-it-all-along" effect that J. W. Schooler, M. Bendiksen, and Z. Ambadar (1997) proposed for cases of "recovered memories" in which individuals had forgotten episodes of talking about the abuse when they were supposedly amnestic for it. In Experiment 1, participants studied homographs with disambiguating context words; in Test 1 they received stud...