“…Many factors could explain why an individual remembers the gist but not the specifics of an episode, including how old the individual is (Abadie et al, 2021; Brainerd & Reyna, 2015; Craik, 2002a; Greene & Naveh-Benjamin, 2020, 2023a; Koutstaal & Schacter, 1997; Schacter et al, 1997; Tun et al, 1998), how attentionally demanding it is to encode or retrieve specific versus gist representations (Greene & Naveh-Benjamin, 2022b, 2022d, 2023b; Luo & Craik, 2009; Odegard & Lampinen, 2005; Rabinowitz et al, 1982), and how much time has elapsed between encoding and subsequent retrieval (Andermane & Bowers, 2015; Greene & Naveh-Benjamin, 2022a, 2022b, 2023c; Sachs, 1967; Sekeres et al, 2016; Thorndyke, 1977). One critical mechanism that may mediate these other factors is the amount of time required to encode the gist versus the specifics of an episode (Ahmad et al, 2017; Greene & Naveh-Benjamin, 2023e; Navon, 1977; Tatler et al, 2003).…”