Characterizing cognitive aging of spatial and contextual memory in animal models

Episodic memory, especially memory for contextual or spatial information, is particularly vulnerable to age-related decline in humans and animal models of aging. The continuing improvement of virtual environment technology for testing humans signifies that widely used procedures employed in the anim...

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Main Authors: Thomas C. Foster, R. Anthony DeFazio, Jennifer L. Bizon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2012.00012/full