ArticleMemory & cognition2022
Semantic knowledge attenuates age-related differences in event segmentation and episodic memory.
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- Hippocampal contributions to semantic memory retrieval: Strategy-specific impairments in transient global amnesia.Journal of neuropsychology · 2025Article
- Individual differences in experiential diversity shape event segmentation granularity.iScience · 2025Article
- Evaluating the quality of TikTok videos on coronary artery disease using various scales to examine correlations with video characteristics and high-quality content.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Of popsicles and crackers: when spatio-temporal memory is not integrated into children's decision-making.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Event perception and event memory in real-world experience.Nature reviews psychology · 2024Article
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- How schema knowledge influences memory in older adults: Filling in the gaps, or leading memory astray?Cognition · 2024Article
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- Aberrant neural processing of event boundaries in persons with Parkinson's disease.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
While semantic and episodic memory may be distinct memory systems, their interdependence is substantial. For instance, decades of work have shown that semantic knowledge facilitates episodic memory. Here, we aim to clarify this interactive relationship by determining whether semantic knowledge facilitates the acquisition of new episodic memories, in part, by influencing an encoding mechanism, event segmentation. In the current study, we evaluated the extent to which semantic knowledge shapes how people segment ongoing activity and how such knowledge-related benefits in segmentation affect episodic memory performance. To investigate these effects, we combined data across three studies that had young and older adults segment and remember videos of everyday activities that were either familiar or unfamiliar to their age group. We found age-related differences in event-segmentation ability and memory performance, but only when older adults lacked semantic knowledge. Most importantly, when they had access to relevant semantic knowledge, older adults segmented and remembered information similar to young adults. Our findings indicate that older adults can use semantic knowledge to effectively encode and retrieve everyday information. These effects suggest that future interventions can leverage older adults' intact semantic knowledge to attenuate age-related deficits in event segmentation and episodic long-term memory.
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