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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Gerontology

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  • Spatial memory and navigation abilities decline with age, particularly for new environments.
  • The impact of aging on remote spatial memory, established in early life, is less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the status of remote spatial memory in older adults.
  • To compare navigation performance in young and older adults using a familiar, long-learned environment.

Main Methods:

  • Healthy young and older adults completed mental navigation tests.
  • Tests utilized a large-scale city environment familiar to all participants but infrequently visited by older adults recently.

Main Results:

  • Older adults performed significantly worse on new spatial learning (route learning).
  • Older adults showed comparable or better performance on mental navigation tasks of the remote, well-known environment.
  • Older adults experienced reduced vividness in re-experiencing the environment and recognizing visual details.

Conclusions:

  • Remote spatial memory for well-learned environments is relatively preserved in healthy aging.
  • Aging impacts the ability to vividly recall and visually detail remote spatial information, akin to the semantic vs. episodic memory decline observed in aging.