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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Gerontology

Background:

  • Existing research indicates spatial navigation abilities decline with age.
  • However, specific age-related deficits in navigational skills and their neural underpinnings require further clarification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate age-related differences in specific spatial navigation tasks.
  • To explore the cognitive and neural factors, including brain volumes, associated with these age effects.

Main Methods:

  • Young and older adults performed wayfinding and route learning tasks in a virtual environment.
  • Environmental knowledge was assessed, and prefrontal, caudate, and hippocampal volumes were measured in older adults.

Main Results:

  • Older adults exhibited deficits in recalling landmarks and recognizing scenes during wayfinding.
  • Difficulties were noted in route learning, specifically with landmark location, temporal order, and directional information.
  • Age-related differences in acquiring configural knowledge were observed in both tasks.
  • Wayfinding performance correlated with hippocampal volume, while route learning correlated with caudate nucleus volume.

Conclusions:

  • Specific aspects of spatial navigation learning, such as landmark details and configural knowledge, are particularly vulnerable to aging.
  • The hippocampus and caudate nucleus appear to be critical neural substrates underlying age-related differences in wayfinding and route learning, respectively.