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Schacter"],"authorCount":4,"venue":"Neurobiology of Aging","year":2016,"type":"article","citedBy":239,"keywords":["dorsal attention network","medial temporal lobe","functional connectivity","anticorrelation","default mode network","large-scale brain networks"],"topic":{"topic":"Functional Brain Connectivity Studies","subfield":"Cognitive Neuroscience","field":"Neuroscience","domain":"Life Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-10T15:16:25.205Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"In this study, older adults showed weaker resting-state connectivity between the medial temporal lobe and both the default and dorsal attention networks.","did":"The authors compared 72 young and 79 older participants using functional MRI, during an autobiographical planning task that engages the default network and during rest. They measured connectivity within and between the two networks.","gist":"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.","meaning":"The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is a brain region central to memory. The claim says its resting links to both large-scale networks were weaker in older adults, which the authors read as the MTL memory system becoming split up, or fractionated, in healthy ageing. 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