Semantic knowledge attenuates age-related differences in event segmentation and episodic memory.

ABSTRACT: While semantic and episodic memory may be distinct memory systems, their interdependence is substantial. For instance, decades of work have shown that semantic knowledge facilitates episodic memory. Here, we aim to clarify this interactive relationship by determining whether semantic knowledge facilitates the acquisition of new episodic memories, in part, by influencing an encoding mechanism, event segmentation. In the current study, we evaluated the extent to which semantic knowledge shapes how people segment ongoing activity and how such knowledge-related benefits in segmentation affect episodic memory performance. To investigate these effects, we combined data across three studies that had young and older adults segment and remember videos of everyday activities that were either familia

SUBMITTER: Pitts BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8938297 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature