“…Older adults' robust difficulties in rejecting rearranged pairs as lure are consistent with the proposition that older adults rely more on familiarity signals in memory retrieval and show a reduced ability to recollect specific features about past events (Daselaar et al, 2006;Healy et al, 2005;Jacoby & Hay, 1998). According to the neurocomputational theory proposed by Li and colleagues (Li & Lindenberger, 1999;Li et al, 2001Li et al, , 2005Li, von Oertzen, & Lindenberger, 2006), decrements in the distinctiveness of representations due to deficient neuromodulation contribute to older adults' difficulties at all stages of learning and memory, such as initial learning, consolidation, and retrieval from memory (cf. Craik, 1983Craik, , 2006.…”