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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2012.00012/full |