Aging reduces neural specialization in ventral visual cortex.

By Denise C. Park, T. Polk, Rob Park, Meredith Minear, Anna Savage, Mason R. Smith. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Que PASA? The posterior-anterior shift in aging. (2008, positive): “These findings are consistent with several studies that show age-related dedifferentiation in sensory processing (Park et al. 2004; Gazzaley et al. 2005).”
Decision making and brand choice by older consumers (2008, neutral): “Outcomes: decision making, habits, and brand choice”
Disruption of large-scale brain systems in advanced aging. (2007, neutral): “, 2001; Sullivan and Pfefferbaum, 2006) and nonspecific functional activity patterns (Park et al., 2004; Gazzaley et al., 2005; Cabeza, 2002).”
Life Span Theory in Developmental Psychology (2007, positive): “In line with these correlational findings, recent neurocognitive evidence demonstrates that processing pathways and brain activation patterns are less differentiated in older adults than in young adults (Cabeza et al., 2004; Park et al., 2004).”
A lifespan database of adult facial stimuli (2004, neutral): “Others have reported less differentiation of neural structures in old than in young for faces in the fusiform gyrus ( Park, Polk, Park, Minear, & Savage, 2004 ).”
Attention and Ageing (2014, positive): “A likely candidate is that bottom-up sensory processes decline in ageing due to reduced neural specialization ( Park et al. 2004 ), which may aff ect multiple cognitive domains ( Baltes and Lindenberger 1997 ).”
Source monitoring 15 years later: What have we learned from fMRI about the neural mechanisms of source memory? (2009, positive): “…areas show less specificity of activation in older adults for distinct classes of information such as faces and scenes (Chee et al., 2006; Park et al., 2004; Payer et al., 2006), and activity during long-term memory encoding tasks in a number of these areas is reduced in older, compared…”
Motor control and aging: links to age-related brain structural, functional, and biochemical effects. (2010, positive): “…dedifferentiation suggests that brain structure–function relationships become less precise with age, resulting in older adults inefficiently recruiting additional regions of the brain compared to young adults (Li and Lindenberger, 1999; Logan et al., 2002; Park et al., 2004; Riecker et al., 2006).”
A Brain-Wide Study of Age-Related Changes in Functional Connectivity. (2015, positive): “The dedifferentiation theory suggests that overactivation of brain areas in elderly might be due to a decrease in functional distinction between brain areas (Baltes and Lindenberger 1997; Park et al. 2004; Carp et al. 2011; Dennis and Cabeza 2011).”