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SUBMITTER: Gutchess AH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2794905 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gutchess Angela H AH Kensinger Elizabeth A EA Schacter Daniel L DL
Neuropsychologia 20100101 1
Aging impacts memory formation and the engagement of frontal and medial temporal regions. However, much of the research to date has focused on the encoding of neutral verbal and visual information. The present fMRI study investigated age differences in a social encoding task while participants made judgments about the self or another person. Although previous studies identified an intact self-reference effect with age, subserved by robust engagement of medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) by both you ...[more]