@article{4c399f3b5926486c9795ddf7247135ae,
title = "Older adults' associative memory is modified by manner of presentation at encoding and retrieval",
abstract = "Relative to young adults, older adults typically exhibit a reduced ability to accurately remember associations between stimuli. Prior research has assumed that this age-related memory impairment affects different types of associations similarly. However, research in young adults has suggested that item-item and item- context associations are supported by different underlying neural mechanisms that could be unequally affected by aging. This experiment compared memory across association types in younger and older adults by presenting the same types of stimuli as either item-item or item- context pairs. Manner of presentation during retrieval was also manipulated so that pairs were presented in a manner that was either congruent or incongruent with their presentation during encoding. Older adults showed a particular benefit of encoding-retrieval congruency for item- context associations, supporting the idea that the associative deficit may be reduced by unitization at encoding and reinstatement of this prior stimulus configuration at retrieval.",
author = "Overman, {Amy A.} and McCormick-Huhn, {John M.} and Dennis, {Nancy A.} and Salerno, {Joanna M.} and Giglio, {Alexandra P.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant R15AG052903 to Amy A. Overman and Nancy A. Dennis. John M. McCormick-Huhn was supported by National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Grant DGE1255832. Portions of the research in this article used the Color FERET (Facial Recognition Technology) database of facial images collected under the FERET program, sponsored by the Department of Defense Counterdrug Technology Development Program Office. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, or the Department of Defense. Funding Information: Preliminary results were presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference in 2012. We thank Andrea Maione, Sandra Priselac, Magdelena Lysenko, Kashfia Alam, Brian Mainland, Lu Jin, Sarah Waters-Schulte, and Liesel-Ann Meusel for their assistance in recruitment, testing, data entry, and data double-checking, and Vinay Kansal for help in data double-checking. Thanks to Mariam Sidrak for administrative help with this article. This study was funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research (MOP 67015) and was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT00643266). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 American Psychological Association.",
year = "2018",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1037/pag0000215",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "33",
pages = "82--92",
journal = "Psychology and aging",
issn = "0882-7974",
publisher = "American Psychological Association",
number = "1",
}