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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Gerontology

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  • Episodic memory typically declines with age, but semantic knowledge, like schemas, can mitigate this deficit.
  • Schema congruency enhances memory, with a larger effect observed in older adults (OAs).
  • Previous neuroimaging studies linked schema use to ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), angular gyrus (AG), and hippocampus (HPC), primarily in young adults (YAs).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the neural mechanisms by which schemas enhance episodic memory in OAs.
  • To compare cortico-hippocampal interactions during schema-guided memory encoding in OAs and YAs.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to examine brain activity during the encoding of scene-object pairs with varying schema congruency.
  • Participants included both older adults (OAs) and young adults (YAs).
  • Memory for encoded objects was tested the following day.

Main Results:

  • Schema congruency significantly enhanced object memory in both YAs and OAs, with a more substantial effect in OAs.
  • A vmPFC-HPC interaction during encoding predicted enhanced memory for congruent objects in both age groups.
  • An AG-HPC interaction was uniquely associated with enhanced memory for congruent objects in OAs, suggesting greater reliance on semantic knowledge.

Conclusions:

  • Schemas boost episodic memory encoding through distinct cortico-hippocampal interactions that differ between age groups.
  • OAs utilize specific neural pathways, including AG-HPC interactions, to leverage semantic knowledge for memory enhancement.
  • Findings reveal age-related differences in the neural basis of schema-guided episodic memory.