Aging differentially affects memory vividness and remembered salience for emotionally negative images.

= 34). Participants studied emotionally negative and neutral images that varied in visual salience (color saturation and luminance) and subsequently reconstructed the images' visual salience from memory and rated their memory vividness. Results demonstrated that older adults, like young adults, show systematic biases in visual memory-they remember stimuli as less visually salient than originally perceived, though older adults were less precise in these judgments compared with young adults. Further, associations between subjective memory vividness and objective memory qualities were reduced in older adults. Lastly, age-by-emotion interactions supported accounts that memory benefits for negative emotional stimuli are reduced in older adults. These findings provide insight into the visual qualities contributing to subjective memory vividness in aging and suggest that aging is associated with diminished memory precision but preserved subjective vividness for negative stimuli. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).