Human aging alters the neural computation and representation of space

NeuroImage

Volumn 117, Issue , 2015, Pages 141-150

  Schuck, Nicolas W ^a,b,c   Doeller, Christian F ^d   Polk, Thad A ^e   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a   Li, Shu Chen ^a,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Hippocampus; Memory; Place cells; Spatial navigation; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL LEARNING; STRIATE CORTEX; VIRTUAL REALITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84936749716     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.031     Document Type: Article

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