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Kristen C McGatlin1, Kimberly M Newberry2, Heather R Bailey2

  • 1Kansas State University; Wayne State University, Suite 9 Skillman Building, Detroit, MI 48202 US.

Open Psychology
|March 26, 2019
PubMed
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Older adults can improve their episodic memory and ability to remember daily events using event segmentation training. This technique helps parse activities into meaningful chunks, counteracting age-related memory declines.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Gerontology

Background:

  • Episodic memory declines with healthy aging and in age-related diseases like dementia.
  • Memory complaints are prevalent in older adults, prompting research into underlying mechanisms and interventions.
  • Event segmentation, parsing continuous activity into meaningful chunks, is linked to memory but declines with age.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and review event segmentation training as a novel strategy for enhancing memory in aging.
  • To explore new methods of event segmentation training utilizing older adults' semantic knowledge.
  • To investigate the potential of event segmentation to improve episodic memory in older adults.

Main Methods:

  • Review of past experiments on event segmentation interventions for memory improvement.
Keywords:
cognitive agingencoding strategyevent segmentationmemorystrategy training

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  • Description of new event segmentation training protocols.
  • Utilizing older adults' semantic knowledge to enhance segmentation and memory recall.

    • Main Results:

    • Event segmentation ability is correlated with later memory performance.
    • Interventions targeting event segmentation have successfully improved memory in both young and older adults.
    • New training approaches show promise in leveraging semantic knowledge for memory enhancement.

    Conclusions:

    • Event segmentation training is a promising intervention for mitigating age-related episodic memory decline.
    • Future research in event segmentation can lead to effective strategies for improving older adults' memory of everyday activities.
    • Leveraging semantic knowledge in training may offer a targeted approach to boost memory in aging populations.