Ageing; Cognition; Distraction; Episodic memory; Inhibition; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology; General Medicine
Abstract :
[en] Healthy ageing is characterized by changes in several cognitive functions, including episodic memory and inhibition. While the age-related decrease in the ability to inhibit irrelevant stimuli is often associated with lower performance, especially in episodic memory, some studies have highlighted the boosting effect of distraction in several tasks in older adults, including episodic memory tasks related to recollection. The aim of this article is to review and compare previous studies according to specific study features and to consider the results in light of the dual-process model of recollection and familiarity that were used by the authors of the reviewed articles. This work led to the identification of two major points of comparison between the studies: the timeline of the distraction intervention and the implicit nature of the processes at play, which both allowed for different implications to the relationship with recollection. The use of distraction in memory tasks can enhance episodic memory, and especially recollective processes, due to specific actions at encoding and retrieval. These findings open the door to further investigations but also raise several questions concerning the role of implicit processes and the negative impact of distraction, for example. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Demonty, Manon ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques ; GIGA Cyclotron Research Center
Coppalle, Renaud ; Université de Liège - ULiège > GIGA > GIGA CRC In vivo Imaging - Aging & Memory ; GIGA Cyclotron Research Center
Bastin, Christine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques ; GIGA Cyclotron Research Center
Geurten, Marie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Neuropsychologie ; GIGA Cyclotron Research Center
Language :
English
Title :
The use of distraction to improve episodic memory in ageing: A review of methods and theoretical implications.
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
Funding number :
Fund for Research in Neurodegenerative Brain Disorders (Grant 2021-J1990130-222080)
Funding text :
The authors have no conflict of interest to declare. This work was supported by funds for research on Alzheimer’s disease, Belgium (SAOFRA Grant 2019/0022); by the fund for research in neurodegenerative brain disorders (Grant 2021-J1990130-222080), managed by the King Baudouin Foundation to Christine Bastin; and by the National Fund for Scientific Research (Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique–Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique) to Christine Bastin and Marie Geurten.
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