ArticleLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)2023
Aging impacts memory for perceptual, but not narrative, event details.
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- Age Differences in Hippocampal Neural Timescales During Movie-Viewing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- White-matter connectivity shapes visual and semantic representations in the aging brain.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Aging and memory for temporal order in naturalistic events.Psychology and aging · 2026Article
- Towards a unified theory of false memory for similar episodes.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- The semantic structure of events consistently influences episodic memory recall over time in young and older adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Aging and episodic memory specificity: Evidence challenging a domain-general pattern separation decline.PloS one · 2025Article
- The "Naturalistic Free Recall" dataset: four stories, hundreds of participants, and high-fidelity transcriptions.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Memory selectivity in older age.Current opinion in psychology · 2024Review
- Autobiographical event memory and aging: older adults get the gist.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
Memory is well known to decline over the course of healthy aging. However, memory is not a monolith and draws from different kinds of representations. Historically, much of our understanding of age-related memory decline stems from recognition of isolated studied items. In contrast, real-life events are often remembered as narratives, and this kind of information is generally missed in typical recognition memory studies. Here, we designed a task to tax mnemonic discrimination of event details, directly contrasting perceptual and narrative memory. Older and younger adults watched an episode of a television show and later completed an old/new recognition test featuring targets, novel foils, and similar lures in narrative and perceptual domains. While we observed no age-related differences on basic recognition of repeated targets and novel foils, older adults showed a deficit in correctly rejecting perceptual, but not narrative, lures. These findings provide insight into the vulnerability of different memory domains in aging and may be useful in characterizing individuals at risk for pathological cognitive decline.
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