Aging impacts memory for perceptual, but not narrative, event details.

ABSTRACT: Memory is well known to decline over the course of healthy aging. However, memory is not a monolith and draws from different kinds of representations. Historically, much of our understanding of age-related memory decline stems from recognition of isolated studied items. In contrast, real-life events are often remembered as narratives, and this kind of information is generally missed in typical recognition memory studies. Here, we designed a task to tax mnemonic discrimination of event details, directly contrasting perceptual and narrative memory. Older and younger adults watched an episode of a television show and later completed an old/new recognition test featuring targets, novel foils, and similar lures in narrative and perceptual domains. While we observed no age-related differences on

SUBMITTER: Delarazan AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9987157 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature