“…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).…”