Age-related deficits in selective attention during encoding increase demands on episodic reconstruction during context retrieval: An ERP study.

ABSTRACT: Previous event-related potential (ERP) and neuroimaging evidence suggests that directing attention toward single item-context associations compared to intra-item features at encoding improves context memory performance and reduces demands on strategic retrieval operations in young and older adults. In everyday situations, however, there are multiple event features competing for our attention. It is not currently known how selectively attending to one contextual feature while attempting to ignore another influences context memory performance and the processes that support successful retrieval in the young and old. We investigated this issue in the current ERP study. Young and older participants studied pictures of objects in the presence of two contextual features: a color and a scene, and

SUBMITTER: James T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5319869 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature