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Aging affects spatial reconstruction more than spatial pattern separation performance even after extended practice.

Rachel Clark¹, Asli C Tahan², Patrick D Watson³

¹Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

|March 22, 2017

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Healthy aging impacts spatial memory differently. Older adults showed significant decline in spatial relational processing, a key hippocampal function, even with practice, indicating genuine memory ability decline.

Keywords:

aging discrimination memory practice spatial

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Background:

The hippocampus undergoes age-related decline, affecting cognitive functions.
Aging's impact on hippocampal-dependent memory is not uniform across all processes.

Purpose of the Study:

To compare healthy aging effects on spatial pattern separation and spatial relational processing.
To investigate if aging differentially affects these two hippocampal-dependent spatial memory aspects.

Main Methods:

30 young and 30 older adults completed spatial pattern separation and spatial reconstruction tasks.
Extended practice was provided to a subset to control for strategy development and familiarity.

Main Results:

Older adults performed significantly worse on the spatial relational processing task (spatial reconstruction).
Age-related deficits in spatial relational processing persisted even after controlling for pattern separation performance.
Performance decline in older adults was resistant to extended practice.

Conclusions:

Spatial relational processing is more vulnerable to healthy aging than spatial pattern separation.
Age-related decline in hippocampal memory abilities, specifically in relational processing, is robust and not overcome by practice.