ArticleScientific reports2020
Links between autobiographical memory richness and temporal discounting in older adults.
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- Temporal discounting across adulthood: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychology and aging · 2022Pooled it
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- Positive autobiographical memory recall does not influence temporal discounting: an internal meta-analysis of experimental studies.Journal Of Economic Psychology · 2024Article
- Taking stock of the past: A psychometric evaluation of the Autobiographical Interview.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- People are less myopic about future than past collective outcomes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Cognitive and social well-being in older adulthood: The CoSoWELL corpus of written life stories.Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Intertemporal choice reflects value comparison rather than self-control: insights from confidence judgements.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Decision neuroscience and neuroeconomics: Recent progress and ongoing challenges.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2022Review
- Individual differences in the relationship between episodic detail generation and resting state functional connectivity vary with age.Neuropsychologia · 2022Article
- Individual Differences in Intertemporal Choice.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Functional Connectivity Correlates of Perceived Financial Exploitation in Older Adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
When making choices between smaller, sooner rewards and larger, later ones, people tend to discount future outcomes. Individual differences in temporal discounting in older adults have been associated with episodic memory abilities and entorhinal cortical thickness. The cause of this association between better memory and more future-oriented choice remains unclear, however. One possibility is that people with perceptually richer recollections are more patient because they also imagine the future more vividly. Alternatively, perhaps people whose memories focus more on the meaning of events (i.e., are more "gist-based") show reduced temporal discounting, since imagining the future depends on interactions between semantic and episodic memory. We examined which categories of episodic details - perception-based or gist-based - are associated with temporal discounting in older adults. Older adults whose autobiographical memories were richer in perception-based details showed reduced temporal discounting. Furthermore, in an exploratory neuroanatomical analysis, both discount rates and perception-based details correlated with entorhinal cortical thickness. Retrieving autobiographical memories before choice did not affect temporal discounting, however, suggesting that activating episodic memory circuitry at the time of choice is insufficient to alter discounting in older adults. These findings elucidate the role of episodic memory in decision making, which will inform interventions to nudge intertemporal choices.
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