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Alexa M Morcom¹, Karl J Friston

¹Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK. alexa.morcom@ed.ac.uk

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Aging
Neuroimaging

Background:

Normal aging is linked to episodic memory decline.
Older adults exhibit altered prefrontal cortex activity, with debate on whether it's detrimental or adaptive.
Previous analyses lack robust support for functional reorganization hypotheses in aging.

Purpose of the Study:

To directly examine changes in brain activity patterns during aging using a model-based multivariate decoding approach.
To assess how spatial activity patterns in the lateral prefrontal cortex predict successful memory formation in aging.

Main Methods:

Re-analysis of an episodic encoding dataset using a model-based multivariate decoding approach.
Bayesian model comparison to evaluate predictive spatial activity patterns.
Focus on activity within the anterior inferior frontal gyrus and middle frontal gyrus.

Main Results:

Older adults displayed more distributed and bilateral (fragmented) activity patterns in the anterior inferior frontal gyrus and middle frontal gyrus.
These findings replicate and extend previous research on reduced prefrontal lateralization in aging.
Greater distribution of activity in older adults correlated with poorer memory performance.

Conclusions:

Aging alters the spatial deployment of neuronal activity, making it less spatially coherent and regionally specific.
The observed distributed activity patterns in older adults reflect neural aging, not adaptive compensatory mechanisms.
These results provide direct multivariate evidence for functional reorganization in the aging brain impacting memory.