Aging specifically impairs switching to an allocentric navigational strategy

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Harris, Mathew A ^a   Wiener, Jan M ^b   Wolbers, Thomas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Allocentric processing; Plus maze; Spatial navigation; Strategy switching; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MAZE TEST; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84870557473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2012.00029     Document Type: Article

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