Contributions of representational distinctiveness and stability to memory performance and age differences

VR Sommer, MC Sander - Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Long-standing theories of cognitive aging suggest that memory decline is associated with
age-related differences in the way information is neurally represented. Multivariate pattern …

Age-related neural dedifferentiation for individual stimuli: An across-participant pattern similarity analysis

JD Koen - Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Age-related neural dedifferentiation–reductions in the regional specificity and precision of
neural representations–is proposed to compromise the ability of older adults to form …

Reduced fidelity of neural representation underlies episodic memory decline in normal aging

L Zheng, Z Gao, X Xiao, Z Ye, C Chen, G Xue - Cerebral Cortex, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Emerging studies have emphasized the importance of the fidelity of cortical representation in
forming enduring episodic memory. No study, however, has examined whether there are …

Tracking age differences in neural distinctiveness across representational levels

M Kobelt, VR Sommer, A Keresztes… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
The distinctiveness of neural information representation is crucial for successful memory
performance but declines with advancing age. Computational models implicate age-related …

Neural pattern similarity differentially relates to memory performance in younger and older adults

VR Sommer, Y Fandakova, TH Grandy… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Age-related memory decline is associated with changes in neural functioning, but little is
known about how aging affects the quality of information representation in the brain …

Age differences in neural distinctiveness during memory encoding, retrieval, and reinstatement

C Pauley, M Kobelt, M Werkle-Bergner… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Neural evidence for age-related differences in representational quality and strategic retrieval processes

AN Trelle, RN Henson, JS Simons - Neurobiology of Aging, 2019 - Elsevier
Mounting behavioral evidence suggests that declines in both representational quality and
controlled retrieval processes contribute to episodic memory decline with age. The present …

Sensory representations supporting memory specificity: Age effects on behavioral and neural discriminability

CR Bowman, JD Chamberlain… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
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 …

Age differences in the neural representation of working memory revealed by multi-voxel pattern analysis

J Carp, L Gmeindl, PA Reuter-Lorenz - Frontiers in Human …, 2010 - frontiersin.org
Working memory function declines across the lifespan. Computational models of aging
attribute such memory impairments to reduced distinctiveness between neural …

Cortical EEG correlates of successful memory encoding: implications for lifespan comparisons

M Werkle-Bergner, V Müller, SC Li… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
In the course of their lives, individuals experience a myriad of events. Some of them leave
stable traces, and others fade away quickly. Recent advances in functional imaging methods …