Higher intraindividual variability is associated with more forgetting and dedifferentiated memory functions in old age

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1879-1888

  Papenberg, Goran ^a   Bäckman, Lars ^b   Chicherio, Christian ^c   Nagel, Irene E ^a,d   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a,d   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a   Li, Shu Chen ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Dedifferentiation; Dopamine; Episodic memory; Forgetting; Performance variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RESPONSE TIME; SENESCENCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPAMINE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79956075628     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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