Diminished episodic memory awareness in older adults: Evidence from feeling-of-knowing and recollection

Souchay, Céline; Moulin, Chris J. A.; Clarys, David; Taconnat, Laurence; Isingrini, Michel

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2006.11.002

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“…According to the dualprocess account (Jacoby, 1991;Yonelinas, 2002), memory for past events can be based on retrieval accompanied by specific contextual details (recollection) or on the feeling of knowing that an event is old or new without necessarily recollecting specific details (familiarity). In the ageing literature, converging evidence indicates that ageing disrupts recollection to a greater extent than does familiarity Jacoby & Hay, 1998;Souchay, Moulin, Clarys, Taconnat, & Isingrini, 2007). Given that the distractors of our associative test comprised familiar stimuli that were presented at study but rearranged in pairing only at test, the ability to reject them is essentially a test of recollection (a recall-to-reject notion; Gallo, Sullivan, Daffner, Schacter, & Budson, 2004).…”

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Adult age differences in memory for name–face associations: The effects of intentional and incidental learning

Naveh–Benjamin

Shing

Kilb

et al. 2009

Memory

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Adult age differences in memory for name–face associations: The effects of intentional and incidental learning

Naveh–Benjamin

Shing

Kilb

et al. 2009

Memory

111

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“…While Pansky, Goldsmith, Koriat, and Pearlman-Avnion (2009) reported age-related deficits in the decision to withhold a response, Kelley and Sahakyan (2003) demonstrated poorer confidence calibration in the forced cued-recall test, but did not find age differences in volunteering to withhold a response. Using feeling-of-knowing judgements that capture episodic memory monitoring after cued recall has failed, some studies reported decline in old age (e.g., Souchay, Moulin, Clarys, Taconnat, & Isingrini, 2007), whereas others did not find such developmental effects after equating encoding quality and memory performance between younger and older adults .…”

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High-confidence memory errors in old age: The roles of monitoring and binding processes

Fandakova

Shing

Lindenberger

2013

Memory

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Based on a two-component model of episodic memory development across the lifespan, we examined the contribution of memory monitoring and binding processes to older adults' increased susceptibility to false memories with high subjective confidence. Younger and older adults worked on a modified version of the continuous recognition task (Schnider, von Daniken, & Gutbrod, 1996). Participants saw the same set of unrelated word pairs in three subsequent runs and had to identify pairs that were repeated within runs. Age group differences in the veridical recognition of repeated word pairs across the three runs were not reliable. False recognition of lure pairs increased across runs in older adults only, indicating increasing interference from previous encounters of the word pairs. Both age groups showed a decrease in false recognition of rearranged pairs across runs, but this decrease was more pronounced in younger adults. Older adults were more confident than younger adults when falsely recognising both lure and rearranged word pairs, indicating that overall memory-confidence calibration is less accurate in old age relative to early adulthood. Taken together, our results suggest that age-related decline in memory monitoring, in interaction with binding deficits, contribute to age differences in false memory for highly familiar events

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“…FOKs obtained during a semantic memory task) have been examined for general knowledge information (Marquié & Huet, 2000;Souchay et al, 2007) and rare word definitions (Allen-Burge & Storandt, 2000;Butterfield et al, 1988), with no age effects found. For semantic memory, older adults are thus able to predict future memory performance for unrecalled items with the same degree of accuracy as young adults.…”

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“…If recollective experience and FOK predictions are closely linked, impairments in recollective experience would have a negative effect on FOK judgments. Indeed, Souchay et al (2007) observed that partialling out recollection removed the age deficit in FOK responding, and Thomas et al (2011) were also able to remove the FOK deficit in aging by asking older adults to retrieve contextual information before giving FOK judgments.…”

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Parlez-vous français? Episodic and Semantic Feeling of Knowing in Aging

Morson¹,

Moulin²,

Havelka³

et al. 2014

IJPS

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As well as memory performance, the sensations and experiences that accompany memory retrieval can be informative regarding changes to memory that occur with aging. One such experience is the Feeling of Knowing (FOK), the sensation that an item which has failed to be recalled is nonetheless stored within the memory system, though temporarily unavailable. Older adults consistently show preserved FOK accuracy for semantic information. However, measures of FOK accuracy in episodic memory tasks have yielded inconsistent findings. The present study used a novel language translation paradigm to assess the effect of age on semantic and episodic FOK judgments, and to examine the impact of repeated learning trials on episodic FOKs. As expected, no age effect was found for semantic FOK judgments. For episodic judgments, older adults' only were found to have chance levels of performance: FOK judgments in the older adult group were not predictive of future memory performance. Repeated learning trials led to comparable improvements in FOK accuracy between the two age groups, although older adults remained at chance until after the third learning trial. Results are interpreted within recent memory and metamemory frameworks.

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Diminished episodic memory awareness in older adults: Evidence from feeling-of-knowing and recollection

Cited by 120 publications

References 65 publications

Adult age differences in memory for name–face associations: The effects of intentional and incidental learning

Adult age differences in memory for name–face associations: The effects of intentional and incidental learning

High-confidence memory errors in old age: The roles of monitoring and binding processes

Parlez-vous français? Episodic and Semantic Feeling of Knowing in Aging

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