Nonbelieved memories in middle-aged and older people

•Nonbelieved memories are typically related with childhood events in middle-aged and older people.•Believed memories are more likely to be retrieved from a field perspective than nonbelieved memories.•No correlation was found between the participants’ age at the time of the nonbelieved event and the...

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Published in:Consciousness and cognition 2016-05, Vol.42, p.352-357
Main Authors: Brédart, Serge, Bouffier, Marion
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Aging
Aging - physiology
Autobiographical memory
Cognition & reasoning
False memories
Female
Humans
Male
Memory
Memory, Episodic
Middle age
Middle Aged
Nonbelieved memories
Older people
Time Factors
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Summary:•Nonbelieved memories are typically related with childhood events in middle-aged and older people.•Believed memories are more likely to be retrieved from a field perspective than nonbelieved memories.•No correlation was found between the participants’ age at the time of the nonbelieved event and their current age. Previous studies have reported that young participants typically date events that they remember, but no longer believe they experienced, to the period of childhood. The present study investigated whether participants aged between 40 and 79years dated events related to relinquished memories to the period of childhood, as do younger people, or whether they dated such events to a period later in life. The study also compared believed and nonbelieved memories with respect to memory perspective (1st vs 3rd person perspective). Results indicated that the majority of middle-aged and older people dated nonbelieved memories to the period of childhood (median age=8years). No correlation was found between the participants’ current age and their age at the time the nonbelieved event occurred. In addition, results showed that believed memories were more likely to be retrieved from a 1st person perspective than were nonbelieved memories.
ISSN:1053-8100
1090-2376
DOI:10.1016/j.concog.2016.04.009