Neural specificity of scene representations is related to memory performance in childhood.

ABSTRACT: Successful memory encoding is supported by medial temporal, retrosplenial, and occipital regions, which show developmental differences in recruitment from childhood to adulthood. However, little is known about the extent to which neural specificity in these brain regions, or the distinctiveness with which sensory information is represented, continues to develop during middle childhood and how it contributes to memory performance. The present study used multivariate pattern analysis to examine the distinctiveness of different scene representations in 169 children and 31 adults, and its relation to memory performance. Most children provided data over up to three measurement occasions between 8 and 15 years (267 total scans), allowing us to examine changes in memory and neural specificity ove

SUBMITTER: Fandakova Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6824265 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature