From mind wandering to involuntary retrieval: Age-related differences in spontaneous cognitive processes

D Maillet, DL Schacter - Neuropsychologia, 2016 - Elsevier
The majority of studies that have investigated the effects of healthy aging on cognition have
focused on age-related differences in voluntary and deliberately engaged cognitive …

Age and active navigation effects on episodic memory: A virtual reality study

H Sauzéon, B N'Kaoua, P Arvind Pala… - British Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the navigation‐related age effects on learning, proactive interference
semantic clustering, recognition hits, and false recognitions in a naturalistic situation using a …

Context memory decline in middle aged adults is related to changes in prefrontal cortex function

D Kwon, D Maillet, S Pasvanis, E Ankudowich… - Cerebral …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The ability to encode and retrieve spatial and temporal contextual details of episodic
memories (context memory) begins to decline at midlife. In the current study, event-related …

Changes in the modulation of brain activity during context encoding vs. context retrieval across the adult lifespan

E Ankudowich, S Pasvanis, MN Rajah - NeuroImage, 2016 - Elsevier
Age-related deficits in context memory may arise from neural changes underlying both
encoding and retrieval of context information. Although age-related functional changes in …

Everyday‐like memory for objects in ageing and A lzheimer's disease assessed in a visually complex environment: The role of executive functioning and episodic …

H Sauzéon, B N'Kaoua, PA Pala… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
To investigate everyday memory, more and more studies rely on virtual‐reality applications
to bridge the gap between in situ approaches and laboratory settings. In this vein, the …

Age-related changes in overcoming proactive interference in associative memory: The role of PFC-mediated executive control processes at retrieval

MR Dulas, A Duarte - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
Behavioral evidence has shown age-related impairments in overcoming proactive
interference in memory, but it is unclear what underlies this deficit. Imaging studies in the …

The associative memory deficit in aging is related to reduced selectivity of brain activity during encoding

C Saverino, Z Fatima, S Sarraf, A Oder… - Journal of cognitive …, 2016 - direct.mit.edu
Human aging is characterized by reductions in the ability to remember associations between
items, despite intact memory for single items. Older adults also show less selectivity in task …

Density abnormalities in normal-appearing gray matter in the middle-aged brain with white matter hyperintense lesions: a DARTEL-enhanced voxel-based …

Y Peng, S Li, Y Zhuang, X Liu, L Wu… - … Interventions in Aging, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background and purpose Little is known about the structural alterations within gray matter
(GM) in middle-aged subjects with white matter hyperintense (WMH) lesions. Here, we …

The activation of the caudate is associated with correct recollections in a reward‐based recollection task

G Dong, Y Wang, MN Potenza - Human Brain Mapping, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Although specific brain regions have been implicated in long‐term memory processes, the
brain function responsible for correctly recollecting information remains incompletely …

Investigation of the human neural correlates of memory for sequences of events and their changes in typical aging

V Boucquey - 2016 - escholarship.org
Memory for sequences of events, an ability present in humans, nonhuman primates, and
rodents, is a critical component of episodic memory and is known to decline in typical aging …