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-related dedifferentiation and hyperdifferentiation of perceptual and mnemonic representations

L Deng, SW Davis, ZA Monge, EA Wing, BR Geib… - Neurobiology of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Preliminary evidence indicates that occipito-temporal activation patterns for different visual
stimuli are less distinct in older (OAs) than younger (YAs) adults, suggesting a …

Neural specificity of scene representations is related to memory performance in childhood

Y Fandakova, S Leckey, CC Driver, SA Bunge, S Ghetti - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
Successful memory encoding is supported by medial temporal, retrosplenial, and occipital
regions, which show developmental differences in recruitment from childhood to adulthood …

Age-related declines in neural distinctiveness correlate across brain areas and result from both decreased reliability and increased confusability

M Simmonite, TA Polk - Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
According to the neural dedifferentiation hypothesis, age-related reductions in the
distinctiveness of neural representations contribute to sensory, cognitive, and motor declines …

Dissociating refreshing and elaboration and their impacts on memory

LM Bartsch, VM Loaiza, L Jäncke, K Oberauer… - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
Maintenance of information in working memory (WM) is assumed to rely on refreshing and
elaboration, but clear mechanistic descriptions of these cognitive processes are lacking, and …

Effects of age differences in memory formation on neural mechanisms of consolidation and retrieval

MC Sander, Y Fandakova, M Werkle-Bergner - Seminars in cell & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Episodic memory decline is a hallmark of cognitive aging and a multifaceted phenomenon.
We review studies that target age differences across different memory processing stages, ie …

Neural differentiation is moderated by age in scene-selective, but not face-selective, cortical regions

S Srokova, PF Hill, JD Koen, DR King, MD Rugg - ENeuro, 2020 - eneuro.org
The aging brain is characterized by neural dedifferentiation, an apparent decrease in the
functional selectivity of category-selective cortical regions. Age-related reductions in neural …

[HTML][HTML] Cooperation and competition between the default mode network and frontal parietal network in the elderly

H Koshino, M Osaka, T Shimokawa, M Kaneda… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Recent research has shown that the Default Mode Network (DMN) typically exhibits
increased activation during processing of social and personal information but shows …

Distinct neural substrates for visual short‐term memory of actions

Y Cai, Z Urgolites, J Wood, C Chen, S Li… - Human Brain …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Fundamental theories of human cognition have long posited that the short‐term
maintenance of actions is supported by one of the “core knowledge” systems of human …

Greater neural differentiation in the ventral visual cortex is associated with youthful memory in superaging

Y Katsumi, JM Andreano, LF Barrett… - Cerebral …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Superagers are older adults who maintain youthful memory despite advanced age. Previous
studies showed that superagers exhibit greater structural and intrinsic functional brain …