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Misrecollection prevents older adults from benefitting from semantic relatedness of the memoranda in associative memory.

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dc.creator Delhaye, Emma
dc.creator Tibon, Roni
dc.creator Gronau, Nurit
dc.creator Levy, Daniel A
dc.creator Bastin, Christine
dc.date 2018-03-29T14:19:03Z
dc.date 2018-03-29T14:19:03Z
dc.date 2018-09
dc.date.accessioned 2019-03-20T08:23:07Z
dc.date.available 2019-03-20T08:23:07Z
dc.identifier https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274519
dc.identifier 10.17863/CAM.21637
dc.identifier.uri https://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/32231
dc.description Memory for episodic associations declines in aging, ostensibly due to decreased recollection abilities. Accordingly, associative unitization - the encoding of associated items as one integrated entity - may potentially attenuate age-related associative deficits by enabling familiarity-based retrieval, which is relatively preserved in aging. To test this hypothesis, we induced bottom-up unitization by manipulating semantic relatedness between memoranda. Twenty-four young and 24 older adults studied pairs of object pictures that were either semantically related or unrelated. Participants subsequently discriminated between intact, recombined and new pairs. We found that semantic relatedness increased the contributions of both familiarity and recollection in young adults, but did not improve older adults' performance. Instead, they showed associative deficits, driven by increased recollection-based false recognition. This may reflect a "misrecollection" phenomenon, in which older adults make more false alarms to recombined pairs with particularly high confidence, due to poorer retrieval monitoring regarding semantically-related associative probes.
dc.format Print-Electronic
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Humans
dc.subject Association
dc.subject Memory
dc.subject Discrimination (Psychology)
dc.subject Pattern Recognition, Visual
dc.subject Semantics
dc.subject Adult
dc.subject Aged
dc.subject Aged, 80 and over
dc.subject Middle Aged
dc.subject Female
dc.subject Male
dc.subject Young Adult
dc.subject Cognitive Aging
dc.title Misrecollection prevents older adults from benefitting from semantic relatedness of the memoranda in associative memory.
dc.type Article


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