Neurocognitive aging: prior memories hinder new hippocampal encoding

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 662-670

  Wilson, Iain A ^a,b   Gallagher, Michela ^c   Eichenbaum, Howard ^d   Tanila, Heikki ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; DENTATE GYRUS; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; ANIMALS; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS;

EID: 33751178775     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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