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Ebbinghaus revisited: influences of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on backward serial recall are modulated by human aging.
Journal of cognitive neuroscience - 1 Oct 2010
Li Shu-Chen, Chicherio Christian, Nyberg Lars, von Oertzen Timo, Nagel Irene E, Papenberg Goran, Sander Thomas, Heekeren Hauke R, Lindenberger Ulman, Bäckman Lars
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The brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plays an important role in activity-dependent synaptic plasticity, which underlies learning and memory. In a sample of 948 younger and older adults, we investigated whether a common Val66Met missense polymorphism (rs6265) in the BDNF gene affects the serial position curve--a fundamental phenomenon of associative memory identified by Hermann Ebbinghaus more than a...
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