Adult age differences in event memory updating: The roles of prior-event retrieval and prediction.

ABSTRACT: Remembering past events can lead to predictions of what is to come and to experiencing prediction errors when things change. Previous research has shown enhanced memory updating for ongoing events that are inconsistent with predictions based on past experiences. According to the Event Memory Retrieval and Comparison (EMRC) Theory, such memory updating depends on the encoding of configural representations that bind retrieved features of the previous event, changed features, and the relationship between the two. We investigated potential age-related differences in these mechanisms by showing older and younger adults two movies of everyday activities. Activities in the second movie either repeated from the first movie or included changed endings. During the second movie, before activities end

SUBMITTER: Stawarczyk D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10527410 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature