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1Vanderbilt Vision Research Center and Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA.
Neuron
|February 8, 2005
Abstract:
Older people can discriminate visual motion of large, high-contrast stimuli better than young adults. This surprising result, reported by Betts et al. in this issue of Neuron, suggests weaker center-surround antagonism in senescence, perhaps attributable to age-related reduction in GABA-mediated inhibition.
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