Preserved memory-based orienting of attention with impaired explicit memory in healthy ageing.

It is increasingly recognised that spatial contextual long-term memory (LTM) prepares neural activity for guiding visuo-spatial attention in a proactive manner. In the current study, we investigated whether the decline in explicit memory observed in healthy ageing would compromise this mechanism. We...

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Published in:Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System & Behavior Vol. 74; pp. 67 - 79
Main Authors: Salvato, Gerardo, Patai, Eva Z, Nobre, Anna C
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Masson SPA Jan 2016
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