Older adults with lower autobiographical memory abilities report less age-related decline in everyday cognitive function.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals differ in how they remember the past: some richly re-experience specific details of past episodes, whereas others recall only the gist of past events. Little research has examined how such trait mnemonics, or lifelong individual differences in memory capacities, relate to cognitive aging. We specifically examined trait episodic autobiographical memory (AM, the tendency to richly re-experience episodic details of past events) in relation to complaints of everyday cognitive functioning, which are known to increase with age. Although one might predict that individuals reporting higher trait-level episodic AM would be resistant to age-related decline in everyday function, we made the opposite prediction. That is, we predicted that those with lower trait-level epi

SUBMITTER: Fan CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7449056 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature