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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Spatial Cognition and the Brain

   Burgess · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2008

   A review of advances in spatial cognition, drawing on animal recording and lesion studies, proposes a neural-level model of spatial memory and imagery involving the hippocampus, parietal lobe and retrosplenial cortex.

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   1. UncheckedA neural model of spatial memory suggests one shared mechanism builds mental scenes for imagery and memory recall, with Papez's circuit helping set viewpoint.“Insights from this model include a common mechanism for the construction of spatial scenes in the service of both imagery and episodic retrieval and a role for the remainder of Papez's circuit in orienting the viewpoint used.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Attenuated anticorrelation between the default and dorsal attention networks with aging: evidence from task and rest

   Spreng, Stevens, Viviano and Schacter · Neurobiology of Aging · 2016

   Using fMRI in young and older adults, the study found weaker anticorrelation between the default and dorsal attention networks with age, during both a planning task and rest.

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   1. Unchecked“The task-related FC analysis revealed reduced anticorrelation with aging.”
   2. Unchecked“At rest, there was a robust double dissociation, with older adults showing a pattern of reduced within-network FC, but increased between-network FC, across both networks, relative to young adults.”
   3. UncheckedIn this study, older adults showed weaker resting-state connectivity between the medial temporal lobe and both the default and dorsal attention networks.“Moreover, older adults showed reduced intrinsic resting-state FC of the MTL with both networks suggesting a fractionation of the MTL memory system in healthy aging.”