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CLINICAL EEG AND NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages 2-7Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/155005940703800105
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [R01AG009988] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIA NIH HHS [AG09988, AG05213] Funding Source: Medline
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Decline in episodic memory, the encoding and retrieval of autobiographical events, is a hallmark of normal cognitive aging. Although the primary causes of this decline remain elusive, event-related brain potential (ERP) studies have contributed to an understanding of age-related episodic memory failure. These data reveal that, although the retrieval-based episodic memory (EM) effect does not differ dramatically between young and older adults, the acquisition-related data suggest a decline in episodic encoding (i.e., semantic elaboration) with increasing age. We conclude that, at the current state of knowledge, encoding deficiencies are more important than retrieval deficits in understanding the causes of episodic memory decline in the older adult.
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