Dennis Lab

Pennsylvania State University, the

PSYCHOLOGY

University Park · United States

NIH-funded
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NIH R01 · 2024

The use of high-resolution fMRI to elucidate the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the benefits of environmental support on associative memory in younger and older adults

PROJECT SUMMARY By 2050, roughly 83.7 million individuals in the U.S. alone will be over the age of 65. Within this population, memory declines are at the forefront of age-related cognitive complaints. Associative memory, or the ability to link together multiple pieces of information, is especially vulnerable to aging. Associative memory is central to everyday memory function, supporting everything from our ability to remember face-name associations to links between medicines and their daily dosages. As such, there is an urgent need to identify methods that can improve associative memory in older adults. Our long-term goal is to identify effective, theory-driven, evidence- based approaches…

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