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Asynchronous development of memory integration and differentiation influences temporal memory organization

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Abstract

Adults remember items with shared contexts as occurring closer in time to one another than those associated with different contexts, even when their objective temporal distance is fixed. Such temporal memory biases are thought to reflect within-event integration and between-event differentiation processes that organize events according to their contextual similarities and differences, respectively. Within-event integration and between-event differentiation are hypothesized to differentially rely on binding and control processes, which may develop at different ages. To test this hypothesis, 5- to 12-year-olds and adults (N = 134) studied quartets of image pairs that contained either the same scene (same-context) or different scenes (different-context). Participants remembered same-context items as occurring closer in time by older childhood (7–9 years), whereas different-context items were remembered as occurring farther apart by early adolescence (10–12 years). The differential emergence of these temporal memory biases suggests within-event integration and between-event differentiation emerge at different ages


Publication metadata

Author(s): Coughlin C, Pudhiyidath A, Roome HE, Varga NL, Nguyen KV, Preston AR

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Developmental Science

Year: 2024

Volume: 27

Issue: 2

Pages: e13437

Print publication date: 01/03/2024

Online publication date: 23/08/2023

Acceptance date: 08/07/2023

ISSN (electronic): 1467-7687

Publisher: Wiley

URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13437

DOI: 10.1111/desc.13437


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