A Double-Edged Sword: The Role of Prior Knowledge in Memory Aging.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

People accumulate knowledge throughout their lifespan and the accumulated knowledge influences how we encode and retrieve information in memory processing. This study aims to investigate the role of knowledge in associative memory across the adult lifespan, and specifically examines the effects of two material properties that interact with prior knowledge: congruency - whether the material is congruent with people's prior knowledge, and ambiguity - whether the material is ambiguous to interpret based on prior knowledge.

Method

273 participants (aged 22-70 years old) completed an incidental memory task online. Participants were shown pictures depicting an object in a scene and judged if the object was likely or unlikely to be in the particular scene. Later, in th

SUBMITTER: Chen X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9127270 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature