Intact frontal memory effect in older age and dementia.
Older adults and demented patients show preserved functioning on certain tests of implicit memory. In this issue of Neuron, Lustig and Buckner demonstrate that both groups show comparable repetition-based effects on response time and prefrontal activity relative to younger adults.
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Department of Psychology, Umeå University, S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D001245:Association Learning / Q000502:physiology; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003704:Dementia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D012660:Semantics; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology