ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2022
Autobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist.
Review in Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.
- Unexplored avenues: a narrative review of cognition and mood in postmenopausal African women with female genital circumcision/mutilation/cutting.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of Healthy and Neuropathological Aging on Autobiographical Memory: A Meta-Analysis of Studies Using the Autobiographical Interview.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Pooled it
- Functional connectivity correlates of sequence memory decline in healthy older adults.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Neuromodulation for restoring and amplifying brain function.Nature neuroscience · 2026Review
- Context reinstatement reveals preserved context memory specificity in typical ageing.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Memory encoding for new information, not autobiographical memory load, is linked with age-related differences in subjective time passage over the past decade.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- In here and out there: Evidence that age-related differences in memory specificity are attenuated in natural social conversations.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2026Article
- Aging differentially affects memory vividness and remembered salience for emotionally negative images.Psychology and aging · 2026Article
- Beyond who, what, and where: Findings from two experiments on age group differences in narrative elaborateness of autobiographical events.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Age Differences in Hippocampal Neural Timescales During Movie-Viewing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Process explanations of age-related changes in memory specificity.Psychology and aging · 2026Article
- The mosaic of experience: How individual differences in attention and working memory shape event segmentation.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2026Review
- Aging shifts recall of naturalistic events from temporal to topic organization.Psychology and aging · 2026Article
- Aging and memory for temporal order in naturalistic events.Psychology and aging · 2026Article
- Enhanced episodic specificity and socioemotional content in older adults' everyday autobiographical thoughts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- The advantages of aging: greater stability of self-representation in older adults is linked to higher well-being.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Observational
- The auditory trap: early semantic conflict and late monitoring breakdown drive false memories in cognitive aging.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Hippocampal-Cortical Networks Predict Conceptual versus Perceptually Guided Narrative Memory.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- The semantic structure of events consistently influences episodic memory recall over time in young and older adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Speech feature identification model for depressed individuals with suicidal ideation based on autobiographical memory.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
We propose that older adults' ability to retrieve episodic autobiographical events, although often viewed through a lens of decline, reveals much about what is preserved and prioritized in cognitive aging. Central to our proposal is the idea that the so-called gist of an autobiographical event is not only spared with normal aging but also well adapted to serve memory-guided behavior in older age. To support our proposal, we review cognitive and brain evidence indicating an age-related shift toward gist memory. We then discuss why this shift likely arises from more than age-related decline and instead partly reflects a natural, arguably adaptive, outcome of experience, motivation, and mode-of-thinking factors. Our proposal reveals an upside of age-related memory changes and identifies important research questions.
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