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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Main Authors: Salvato, G, Patai, E, Nobre, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015