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  • Aging Research

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  • Healthy aging affects visual processing, cognition, and behavior.
  • Neural changes underlying age-related visual processing deficits are largely unknown.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate age-related changes in neural representations for object recognition.
  • Combine electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and behavioral data.

Main Methods:

  • Multivariate analysis of EEG and fMRI data.
  • Behavioral similarity judgments to assess representational relevance.
  • Comparison of object recognition in older versus younger adults.

Main Results:

  • Aging selectively delays the formation of object representations.
  • Delayed representation formation occurs in high-level ventral visual cortex.
  • Aging reduces content selectivity, indicating neural dedifferentiation.
  • Age-related representational changes are behaviorally relevant.

Conclusions:

  • Healthy aging impacts the chronometry and spatial locus of visual object representations.
  • Neural dedifferentiation in high-level visual cortex is a key mechanism.
  • These findings reveal the ecological relevance of age-related neural changes in the visual brain.