Relationships between age, fMRI correlates of familiarity and familiarity-based memory performance under single and dual task conditions

de Chastelaine, Marianne, Horne, Erin D., Hou, Mingzhu and Rugg, Michael D. (2023) Relationships between age, fMRI correlates of familiarity and familiarity-based memory performance under single and dual task conditions. Neuropsychologia, 189. ISSN 0028-3932

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Abstract

Using fMRI, we investigated the effects of age and divided attention on the neural correlates of familiarity and their relationship with memory performance. At study, word pairs were visually presented to young and older participants under the requirement to make a relational judgment on each pair. Participants were then scanned while undertaking an associative recognition test under single and dual (auditory tone detection) task conditions. The test items comprised studied, rearranged (words from different studied pairs) and new word pairs. fMRI familiarity effects were operationalized as greater activity elicited by studied pairs incorrectly identified as ‘rearranged’ than by correctly rejected new pairs. The reverse contrast was employed to identify ‘novelty’ effects. Behavioral familiarity estimates were equivalent across age groups and task conditions. Robust fMRI familiarity effects were identified in several regions, including medial and superior lateral parietal cortex, dorsal medial and left lateral prefrontal cortex, and bilateral caudate. fMRI novelty effects were identified in the anterior medial temporal lobe. Both familiarity and novelty effects were largely age-invariant and did not vary, or varied minimally, according to task condition. In addition, the familiarity effects correlated positively with a behavioral estimate of familiarity strength irrespective of age. These findings extend a previous report from our laboratory, and converge with prior behavioral reports, in demonstrating that the factors of age and divided attention have little impact on behavioral and neural estimates of familiarity.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Data availability: Data will be made available on request.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	aging,associative recognition,divided attention,fmri,novelty,experimental and cognitive psychology,cognitive neuroscience,behavioral neuroscience ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3205
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 Jun 2026 13:32
Last Modified:	23 Jun 2026 07:56
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103465
DOI:	10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108670

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