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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human Development

Background:

  • Confidence calibration in episodic memory is crucial for accurate self-assessment.
  • Ageing is associated with declines in episodic memory functions, particularly those reliant on the hippocampus.
  • Understanding age-related differences in memory confidence can illuminate cognitive aging processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate lifespan variations in confidence calibration for episodic memory.
  • To examine the susceptibility to high-confidence errors across different age groups: children, teenagers, younger adults, and older adults.
  • To explore the relationship between the associative deficit in older adults and their propensity for high-confidence errors.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an associative recognition memory paradigm to assess memory performance and confidence judgments.
  • Compared confidence calibration across four distinct age groups.
  • Analyzed the likelihood of high-confidence errors in relation to memory accuracy and age.

Main Results:

  • All age groups demonstrated better confidence calibration for correct versus incorrect memory responses.
  • Older adults showed a disproportionately higher rate of high-confidence errors compared to children, teenagers, and younger adults.
  • This heightened error rate in older adults occurred despite similar overall memory performance levels to children.

Conclusions:

  • Older adults are more prone to high-confidence errors, indicating a specific deficit in confidence calibration.
  • Findings support the misrecollection account of high-confidence errors and link this phenomenon to age-related declines in hippocampus-dependent episodic memory.
  • Ageing significantly impacts the ability to accurately link subjective confidence with objective memory performance.