SynthesisPsychological bulletin2019
Aging and recognition memory: A meta-analysis.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Age-related differences in recall and recognition: a meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2019Pooled it
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- The endocannabinoid system and the ageing brain.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2026Review
- Context reinstatement reveals preserved context memory specificity in typical ageing.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Are Creative People More Susceptible to False Memory? Evidence for Age- and Task-Related Differences.Creativity research journal · 2026Article
- Evaluating the validity of the simplified conjoint-recognition model.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Adult lifespan effects on functional specialization along the hippocampal long axis.Frontiers in cognition · 2026Article
- Age Differences in False Memories Induced by Misinformation: The Role of Attentional Salience of Original Information.PsyCh journal · 2025Article
- EEG Correlates of Auditory Short-Term Memory and Dissimilarity Perception in Young and Older Adults.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Probing the origins of subjective confidence in source memory decisions in young and older adults: A sequential sampling account.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2025Article
- How age and culture impact the neural correlates of memory retrieval.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Cannabidiol (CBD) and cognitive function in older adults: a mini review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Forgetting is comparable between healthy young and old people.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Correcting fake news headlines after repeated exposure: memory and belief accuracy in younger and older adults.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2024Article
- A lifespan study of the confidence-accuracy relation in working memory and episodic long-term memory.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2024Article
- Effects of Age on Cross-Cultural Differences in the Neural Correlates of Memory Retrieval.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Protective effects of physical activity on episodic memory during aging are explained by executive functioning.European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2024Article
- Demands on perceptual and mnemonic fidelity are a key determinant of age-related cognitive decline throughout the lifespan.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2024Article
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Abstract
Recognizing a stimulus as previously encountered is a crucial everyday life skill and a critical task motivating theoretical development in models of human memory. Although there are clear age-related memory deficits in tasks requiring recall or memory for context, the existence and nature of age differences in recognition memory remain unclear. The nature of any such deficits is critical to understanding the effects of age on memory because recognition tasks allow fewer strategic backdoors to supporting memory than do tasks of recall. Consequently, recognition may provide the purest measure of age-related memory deficit of all standard memory tasks. We conducted a meta-analysis of 232 prior experiments on age differences in recognition memory. As an organizing framework, we used signal-detection theory (Green & Swets, 1966; Macmillan & Creelman, 2005) to characterize recognition memory in terms of both discrimination between studied items and unstudied lures (d') and response bias or criterion (c). Relative to young adults, older adults showed reduced discrimination accuracy and a more liberal response criterion (i.e., greater tendency to term items new). Both of these effects were influenced by multiple, differing variables, with larger age deficits when studied material must be discriminated from familiar or related material, but smaller when studying semantically rich materials. These results support a view in which neither the self-initiation of mnemonic processes nor the deployment of strategic processes is the only source of age-related memory deficits, and they add to our understanding of the mechanisms underlying those changes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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