Differential effects of knowledge and aging on the encoding and retrieval of everyday activities.

ABSTRACT: We deconstruct continuous streams of action into smaller, meaningful events. Research has shown that the ability to segment continuous activity into such events and remember their contents declines with age; however, knowledge improves with age. We investigated how young and older adults use knowledge to more efficiently encode and later remember information from everyday events by having participants view a series of self-paced slideshows depicting everyday activities. For some activities, older adults produce more normative scripts than do young adults (older adult activities) and for other activities, young adults produce more normative scripts than do older adults (young adult activities). Overall, participants viewed event boundaries longer than within events (i.e., the event boundary

SUBMITTER: Smith ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7028520 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature