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Preservation and loss of spatial memory in aged rats and humans: implications for the analysis of memory dysfunction
1Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo 58105.
Neurobiology of Aging
|September 1, 1988
Abstract:
Research with laboratory rats and humans demonstrating that the usual age-related deficits in spatial working memory can be attenuated or eliminated by prior training earlier in adult life is reviewed and possible mechanisms for this phenomenon are considered. A new technique for measuring remote memory for spatial information in humans is described and preliminary results with demented patients are discussed.