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Aging And Biases In Spatial Memory: A Dynamic Field Approach, Gregory J. Degirolamo
Aging And Biases In Spatial Memory: A Dynamic Field Approach, Gregory J. Degirolamo
Department of Psychology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Spatial cognition encompasses a wide variety of abilities and requires the interaction of several regions of the brain, including the hippocampus, striatum, and pre-frontal cortex (PFC). (Packard & McGaugh, 1996; Reuter-Lorenz et al., 2000). Given that these areas atrophy in later adulthood (Golomb et al., 1993; Raz et al., 2003; Aizenstein et al., 2006), it raises the question of how spatial cognition changes with age. It has been found that increased task complexity leads to an age-related decline in performance (Nagel et al., 2009). Other factors that lead to a decline in memory performance in older adults include whether the …