{"doi":"10.31234/osf.io/j2dby","title":"The Perks of Being Bilingual: Autobiographical Memory and Aging Among Bilingual and Monolingual Hispanic Adults","abstract":"Objective: Significant gaps remain in our knowledge of cognitive aging in Hispanic adults, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States (U.S.). Episodic autobiographical memory (EAM), which has well documented age-related differences, has not been directly examined in older U.S. Hispanic adults – a population that is commonly bilingual. This study aimed to examine the effects of Spanish-English bilingualism and aging on EAM among Hispanic adults.Methods: In the present study 100 young and middle-aged/older Hispanic adults (50 English-Spanish bilingual Hispanic participants and 50 monolingual English-speaking Hispanic participants) narrated EAMs in a structured interview. We assessed these narratives for episodic and non-episodic details using an established scoring protocol.Results: We replicated the commonly observed age-related decrease in episodic detail generation among Hispanic participants, with non-episodic detail not significantly differing between young and older Hispanic participants. Among young Hispanic participants, bilingualism was associated with higher episodic, but not non-episodic, detail generation. This bilingualism advantage for episodic detail, however, was not evident among older Hispanic participants.Conclusions: These results underscore the complex interplay between bilingualism and age in autobiographical memory for events among Hispanic adults. Our study highlights the importance of including diverse race/ethnic and linguistic samples in cognitive aging research to better understand how bilingualism and cultural factors influence memory across the lifespan.","journal":"PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)","year":2023,"id":415346,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9512,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1176700,"name":"Daniel Armando Hernandez","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1176702,"name":"Austin M. Deffner","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":277425,"name":"Jessica R. Andrews‐Hanna","orcid":"0000-0003-1769-6756","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":738233,"name":"John Ruiz","orcid":"0000-0002-3398-7054","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":328213,"name":"Matthew D Grilli","orcid":"0000-0003-0089-3243","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":911498,"name":"Mónica C. Acevedo-Molina","orcid":"0000-0003-3835-0391","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":64,"raw_metadata":{"citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:22:12.933438Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}