Age-related changes in susceptibility to false memories in different tasks.
We become increasingly susceptible to various false memories as we age. Recent work has shown that in younger adults, associations between false memories in different paradigms are weak or non-existent. However, it is unknown whether the relationship between false memories changes for older adults....
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 748 - 767 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=193392415&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 193392415 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2026 vid: 54 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 193392415 10.3758/s13421-025-01778-x ppf: 748 ppct: 19 formats: tig: atl: Age-related changes in susceptibility to false memories in different tasks. aug: au: Devitt, Aleea L. Foster, Jeffrey affil: https://ror.org/013fsnh78 School of Psychological and Social Sciences, The University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, 3240, Hamilton, New Zealand https://ror.org/01sf06y89 Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia su: Australia United States United Kingdom Task performance Executive function Misinformation Age distribution Paradigms (Social sciences) Analysis of variance Cognition Adults Old age Repeated measures design Pearson correlation (Statistics) Research funding T-test (Statistics) Data analysis False memory syndrome Multiple regression analysis Questionnaires Multivariate analysis Statistics sug: subj: Task performance Executive function Misinformation Age distribution Paradigms (Social sciences) Analysis of variance Cognition Adults Old age Australia United States United Kingdom Repeated measures design Pearson correlation (Statistics) Research funding T-test (Statistics) Data analysis False memory syndrome Multiple regression analysis Questionnaires Multivariate analysis Statistics keyword: Aging DRM False memory Memory conjunction error Memory distortion Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Aging DRM False memory Memory conjunction error Memory distortion Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology ab: We become increasingly susceptible to various false memories as we age. Recent work has shown that in younger adults, associations between false memories in different paradigms are weak or non-existent. However, it is unknown whether the relationship between false memories changes for older adults. In two Experiments, we assessed false memories in younger and older adults elicited by three established false memory paradigms: the misinformation paradigm, the DRM (Deese-Roediger-McDermott) paradigm, and the memory conjunction tasks. We replicated previous findings of a lack of relationship between false memories arising from these tasks in younger adults, with the exception of raw false alarm rates in the DRM and memory conjunction tasks. In a novel finding, we extended this lack of relationship to older adults. In both Experiments, we observed a unique relationship between different types of false memories for older adults with higher compared with lower executive functioning capacity, which might reflect different recruitment of compensatory strategies. On the whole, our results concur with prior reports that different cognitive mechanisms underpin false memories in different paradigms, and care must be taken when generalizing results across memory paradigms, regardless of age. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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