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Genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease alters the five-year trajectory of semantic memory activation in cognitively intact elders.
NeuroImage - 1 May 2015
Rao Stephen M, Bonner-Jackson Aaron, Nielson Kristy A, Seidenberg Michael, Smith J Carson, Woodard John L, Durgerian Sally
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Healthy aging is associated with cognitive declines typically accompanied by increased task-related brain activity in comparison to younger counterparts. The Scaffolding Theory of Aging and Cognition (STAC) (Park and Reuter-Lorenz, 2009; Reuter-Lorenz and Park, 2014) posits that compensatory brain processes are responsible for maintaining normal cognitive performance in older adults, despite accumulation of...
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