title: Intact frontal memory effect in older age and dementia.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Umeå University, S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nyberg
mesh_terms: 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