The goal of this clinical is to learn how the brain supports different kinds of memory decisions in healthy young and older adults. The main question it seeks to answer is: Do older adults make memory decisions by integrating across experiences?

Young (aged 18-30 years) and older (aged 65-80 years) participants will complete a memory task while undergoing functional MRI to measure their brain responses.

Researchers will compare brain measures of integration in older adults to those of young adults to see if integration increases in older age.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Either aged 18-30 years (young adults) or aged 65-80 years (older adults) (self-report)
• Fluent in English (self-report)
• Right-handed (self-report)
• Cognitively healthy (self report verified by score > 24 on Montreal Cognitive Assessment)
• Self-reported normal or corrected-to-normal vision

Exclusion Criteria:

• Self-reported neurological disorder (e.g., Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease)
• Self-reported uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes, or thyroid disorder
• Having conditions or devices that are unsafe for MRI (assessed via imaging center's MRI safety screening form)
• Self-reported difficulty lying still on one's back for 1-2 hours

Shared data will include structural and function MRI images, behavioral data from experimental tasks, behavioral data from the pre-experimental cognitive assessment, behavioral data from any post-experimental debriefing questionnaires, and participant demographic information.

Data from each experiment will be made available upon acceptance of the first manuscript resulting from the project or at the end of the award period (whichever comes first for a given experiment). Investigators expect the data to be available indefinitely.

The investigators will publicly share all de-identified data through OpenNeuro. Access to the data will not be controlled.