ArticlePsychology and aging2018
Flexible retrieval mechanisms supporting successful inference produce false memories in younger but not older adults.
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- Age-related differences in the relationship between sustained attention and associative memory and Memory-Guided inference.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Age-related decline in source and associative memory.Cognitive processing · 2025Review
- Ingroup sources enhance associative inference.Communications psychology · 2023Article
- Generalization and false memory in acquired equivalence.Cognition · 2023Article
- Neural Reinstatement of Overlapping Memories in Young and Older Adults.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Reinstatement of item-specific contextual details during retrieval supports recombination-related false memories.NeuroImage · 2021Article
- Healthy Middle-Aged Adults Have Preserved Mnemonic Discrimination and Integration, While Showing No Detectable Memory Benefits.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Generalization and the hippocampus: More than one story?Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2020Review
- Associative interference in older and younger adults.Psychology and aging · 2019Article
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Abstract
Episodic memory involves flexible retrieval processes that allow a person to link elements of distinct episodes in order to make novel inferences across events. In younger adults, we recently found that the same retrieval-related recombination mechanism that supports successful associative inference produces source misattributions as a consequence of erroneous binding of contextual elements from distinct episodes. In the current experiment, we found that older adults, in contrast to younger adults, did not show an increase in source misattributions following successful associative inference. We observed this pattern both when (a) younger and older adults were tested under identical experimental conditions and (b) younger and older adults were matched on associative inference accuracy and overall source memory errors. We suggest that the differing patterns of results are a consequence of age-related deficits in associative binding during successful inferential retrieval. (PsycINFO Database Record
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