Remote spatial memory in aging: All is not lost

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Rosenbaum, R Shayna ^a,b   Winocur, Gordon ^b,c,d   Binns, Malcolm A ^b,c   Moscovitch, Morris ^b,c,e  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e BAYCREST CENTRE FOR GERIATRIC CARE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Hippocampus; Landmark recognition; Mental navigation; Recollection; Remote memory; Route learning; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL NAVIGATION TEST; MENTAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; REMOTE SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84870490465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2012.00025     Document Type: Article

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