Improving older adults' autobiographical memory through video‐conferencing intervention during COVID‐19

Jung, Dawoon; Choi, Jong Hyun; Park, Soohyun; Choi, Kyung Il

doi:10.1002/gps.5973

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“…This work has shown, for example, that individuals recruited through MTurk can report on their autobiographical memories in an unsupervised context, and they experience positive and negative memories similar to in the laboratory (Gower et al, 2023). In addition, several studies have demonstrated that autobiographical memory training programs, developed in the laboratory and clinic, can be delivered virtually in a videoconference format (Jung et al, 2023;. Beyond autobiographical memory, recent research has in fact shown that many cognitive tasks, despite the reduction in control and translation to a home environment, produce similar outcomes when administered by videoconference (Brearly et al, 2017;Marra et al, 2020).…”

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Retrieving autobiographical memories in autobiographical contexts: Are age-related differences in narrated episodic specificity present outside of the laboratory?

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The Autobiographical Interview, a method for evaluating detailed memory of real-world events, reliably detects differences in episodic specificity between young and cognitively normal older adults. The Autobiographical Interview was developed and has been implemented, in the context of in-person research. In-person research, however, was challenging during the COVID-19 pandemic and introduced the need for virtual cognitive testing. The present study examined whether the Autobiographical Interview translates to a virtual environment and replicates the age-associated reduction in episodic specificity. Cognitively unimpaired older adults (N=49) and young adults (N=54) were administered a virtual Autobiographical Interview through videoconference. Consistent with laboratory-based studies, older adults showed reduced episodic specificity, as reflected by fewer episodic or “internal” details and more “external” details (i.e., semantic, language-based details) relative to young adults. Additional features of memories gathered with the virtual Autobiographical Interview, and age-related differences, were consistent with laboratory findings. The Autobiographical Interview, despite being developed in the laboratory, appears to translate to a virtual format as a measure of age-related differences in episodic specificity. These findings add promise to the use of virtual cognitive testing to improve the accessibility, participant diversity, scalability, and ecological validity of autobiographical memory research.

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