记忆重叠影响青少年与成年人记忆的不同方式

Over time we accumulate many interrelated memories which we draw upon to remember both generalities and specifics of our experience. While both aspects of memory improve through childhood, their maturation into adolescence remains poorly understood. Here, we compared how 39 adolescents (12-13 years old) and 36 adults managed differing levels of relatedness (“overlap”) among learned associations to remember shared (general) and unique (specific) features. Across age groups, greater overlap boosted memory for shared features but hindered memory for specifics. However, adolescents showed a reduce