We propose that older adults' ability to retrieve episodic autobiographical events, although
often viewed through a lens of decline, reveals much about what is preserved and prioritized …

Recollection of one's personal past, or autobiographical memory (AM), varies across
individuals and across the life span. This manifests in the amount of episodic content …

Objectives A meta-analytic review was conducted to assess the effects of healthy aging,
amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer's disease (AD) on naturalistic …

Neuronal dysfunction in specific brain regions or across distributed brain networks is a
known feature of Alzheimer's disease. An often reported finding in the early stage of the …

Healthy aging is associated with a shift away from the retrieval of specific episodic
autobiographical memories (AMs), towards more general and semanticized memories …

The precuneus is an early site of amyloid-beta accumulation. Previous cross-sectional
studies reported increased precuneus fMRI activity in older adults with mild cognitive deficits …

The default network is widely implicated as a common neural substrate for self-generated
thought, such as remembering one's past (autobiographical memory) and imagining the …

Contemporary neurocognitive frameworks propose that conceptual and perceptual content
of autobiographical memories—personal past experiences—are processed by dissociable …

Prior studies have shown that older and younger adults differ on average in the amount of
details they generate while narrating autobiographical event memories. Compared to …