Age-related differences in visual encoding and response strategies contribute to spatial memory deficits.

ABSTRACT: Successful navigation requires memorising and recognising the locations of objects across different perspectives. Although these abilities rely on hippocampal functioning, which is susceptible to degeneration in older adults, little is known about the effects of ageing on encoding and response strategies that are used to recognise spatial configurations. To investigate this, we asked young and older participants to encode the locations of objects in a virtual room shown as a picture on a computer screen. Participants were then shown a second picture of the same room taken from the same (0°) or a different perspective (45° or 135°) and had to judge whether the objects occupied the same or different locations. Overall, older adults had greater difficulty with the task than younger adults alt

SUBMITTER: Segen V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7886755 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature