Preliminary evidence indicates that occipito-temporal activation patterns for different visual
stimuli are less distinct in older (OAs) than younger (YAs) adults, suggesting a …

Current theories of cognitive aging argue that neural representations become less distinctive
in old age, a phenomenon known as dedifferentiation. The present study used multi-voxel …

Although episodic memory and visual processing decline substantially with healthy aging,
semantic knowledge is generally spared. There is evidence that older adults9 spared …

Older adults' difficulty in distinguishing between old and new information contributes to
memory decline, which may occur because older adults are less likely than young adults to …

Increasing age is associated with age-related neural dedifferentiation, a reduction in the
selectivity of neural representations, which has been proposed to contribute to cognitive …

Dedifferentiation, or decreased processing specificity, has been suggested to represent a
ubiquitous characteristic of cognitive aging. In this study, we examined both age-related …

According to the neural dedifferentiation hypothesis, age-related reductions in the
distinctiveness of neural representations contribute to sensory, cognitive, and motor declines …

The distinctiveness of neural information representation is crucial for successful memory
performance but declines with advancing age. Computational models implicate age-related …

Robust evidence points to mnemonic deficits in older adults related to dedifferentiated, ie
less distinct, neural responses during memory encoding. However, less is known about …

Healthy aging is associated with decreased neural selectivity (dedifferentiation) in category-
selective cortical regions. This finding has prompted the suggestion that dedifferentiation …