title: What-where-when memory and encoding strategies in healthy aging.
abstract: Older adults exhibit disproportionate impairments in memory for item-associations. These impairments may stem from an inability to self-initiate deep encoding strategies. The present study investigates this using the "treasure-hunt task"; a what-where-when style episodic memory test that requires individuals to "hide" items around complex scenes. This task separately assesses memory for item, location, and temporal order, as well as bound what-where-when information. The results suggest that older adults are able to ameliorate integration memory deficits by using self-initiated encoding strategies when these are externally located and therefore place reduced demands on working memory and attentional resources.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB23EB, United Kingdom lgc23@cam.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Lucy G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Cheke
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests; D055815:Young Adult