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SUBMITTER: Gutchess AH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1865530 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gutchess Angela H AH Hebrank Andrew A Sutton Bradley P BP Leshikar Eric E Chee Michael W L MW Tan Jiat Chow JC Goh Joshua O S JO Park Denise C DC
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Previous behavioral research suggests that although elderly adults' memory benefits from supportive context, misleading or irrelevant contexts produce greater interference. In the present study, we use event-related fMRI to investigate age differences when processing contextual information to make recognition judgments. Twenty-one young and twenty elderly incidentally encoded pictures of objects presented in meaningful contexts, and completed a memory test for the objects presented in identical ...[more]