Mechanisms of remembering the past and imagining the future--new data from autobiographical memory tasks in a lifespan approach
| Autor: | Pascale Piolino, Laurence Picard, Maria Abram, Béatrice Navarro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male Reconstructive memory Adolescent Human Development Memory Episodic Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Developmental psychology Executive Function Young Adult Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Retrospective memory Developmental and Educational Psychology Semantic memory Humans Child Episodic memory Aged Aged 80 and over Autobiographical memory Working memory Age Factors Cognition Middle Aged Executive functions Self Concept Semantics Memory Short-Term Mental Recall Imagination Female Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Consciousness and cognition. 29 |
| ISSN: | 1090-2376 |
| Popis: | We investigated the episodic/semantic distinction in remembering the past and imagining the future and explored cognitive mechanisms predicting events' specificity throughout the lifespan. Eighty-three 6- to 81-year-old participants, divided into 5 age groups, underwent past, present and future episodic (events' evocation) and semantic (self-descriptions) autobiographical tasks and a complementary cognitive test battery (executive functions, working and episodic memory). The main results showed age effects on episodic events' evocation indicating an inverted U function (i.e., developmental progression from 6 to 21years and aging decline). By contrast, age effects were slighter on self-descriptions while self-defining events' evocation increased with age. Furthermore, age effects on episodic events' evocation were mainly mediated by age effects on cognitive functions and personal semantics. These new findings indicate a developmental and aging episodic/semantic distinction for both remembering the past and imagining the future, and suggest that above similarities, these abilities could have a fundamentally different basis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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