{"pk":21592,"title":"Investigating the longevity of real-world memory following a smartphone intervention in older adults: A multi-year follow-up study","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Our ability to re-experience the events from our personal past tends to decline with age, which can have profound effects on well-being. HippoCamera is a smartphone-based application developed to mitigate age-related decline by guiding users to record and review cues for real-world events using established mnemonic strategies, with previous work demonstrating improved episodic recollection and enhanced hippocampal activity following use. Here, we followed-up with older adult participants who had used HippoCamera several years prior to investigate whether any benefits persisted following use. Using a mixed-methods approach, we found stronger subjective re-experiencing of events that were recorded with HippoCamera compared to those that were not. Further, participants reported extended benefits to their overall sense of meaning and well-being. These results provide preliminary evidence characterizing the long-lasting effects of a smartphone-based tool that improves memory for everyday events in aging.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Externally-supported cognition; Memory"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1z35d05c","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Bryan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hong","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto","department":""},{"first_name":"Miranda","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chang","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto","department":""},{"first_name":"Eliza","middle_name":"","last_name":"McCann","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto","department":""},{"first_name":"Morgan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Barense","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21592/galley/11191/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21592/galley/21985/download/"}]}