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September 19, 2025Open Access

The role of emotional context and strategy choice in associative memory in young and older adults

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JDJessica DemirjianLaboratoire d’Étude des Mécanismes CognitifsHCHanna ChainayLaboratoire d’Étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs

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Overview

This study investigates how emotional context and strategy choice affect associative memory in young and older adults, indicating varying outcomes between age groups.

Key Points

  • Emotional context significantly impacted cued recall performance in both young and older adults, particularly with mental imagery.
  • Older adults faced challenges in forming and retrieving associations better than recalling single items, unlike younger adults.
  • While emotional context did not affect strategy choice, it did influence free recall performance trends among participants.
  • Choosing repetition as a strategy resulted in poorer cued recall in negative contexts than in positive ones, highlighting the complexity of memory processes.

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Demirjian et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d46fbd31b076d99fa699cbhttps://doi.org/10.31124/advance.175819131.18997429/v1
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