Hyper-Binding: Older Adults Form Too Many Associations, Not Too Few

• Published in: Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society Vol. 33; no. 5; pp. 292 - 299
• Main Authors: Campbell, Karen L., Davis, Emily E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.10.2024; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Older people; hyper-binding; attention; memory; aging; hippocampus; frontoparietal control network

Associative memory declines with age, and this decline is thought to stem from a decreased ability to form new associations or bind information together. However, a growing body of work suggests that (a) the binding process itself remains relatively intact with age when tested implicitly and (b) old...