Charting age-related changes in the quality of episodic memory

随着年龄的增长，我们记忆丰富细节事件的能力变得不那么有效。推动这些变化的机制仍不清楚，严重限制了我们在未来几年准确评估和优化记忆功能的能力。这个项目旨在利用尖端的实验和神经成像技术来确定记忆准确性和记忆质量在成年人一生中是如何变化的。它将对自信、记忆成功和记忆质量之间的关系以及这些过程的潜在神经基础提供新的见解。这项工作将为增强记忆功能提供必要的经验基础，确保老年人能够继续作为社会的活跃成员参与进来。

As we get older, our capacity to remember events in rich detail becomes less efficient. The mechanisms driving these changes remain unclear, severely limiting our capacity to accurately assess and optimise memory function in later years. This project aims to determine how memory accuracy and memory quality change across the adult lifespan using cutting-edge experimental and neuroimaging techniques. It will deliver new insights into the relationship between confidence, memory success and memory quality, and the underlying neural substrates of these processes. This work will provide the essential empirical foundation to augment memory function, ensuring that older adults can continue to participate as active members of society.