Implicit Spatial Contextual Learning in Healthy Aging.
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Neuropsychology
- Vol. 18 (1) , 124-134
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0894-4105.18.1.124
Abstract
Three experiments investigated the aging of implicit spatial and spatiotemporal context learning in 2 tasks. In contextual cuing, people learn to use repeated spatial configurations to facilitate search for a target, whereas in higher order serial learning, they learn to use subtle sequence regularities to respond more quickly and accurately to a series of events. Results reveal a dissociation; overall contextual cuing is spared in healthy aging, whereas higher order sequence learning is impaired in the same individuals. This finding suggests that these 2 forms of implicit learning rely on different neural substrates that age differently; the results are also consistent with recent evidence that fronto-striatal circuits are particularly susceptible to decline in health aging.This publication has 68 references indexed in Scilit:
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