Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Ageing increases reliance on sensorimotor prediction through structural and functional differences in frontostriatal circuits

  • Noham Wolpe,
  • James N. Ingram,
  • Kamen A. Tsvetanov,
  • Linda Geerligs,
  • Rogier A. Kievit,
  • Richard N. Henson,
  • Daniel M. Wolpert,
  • Cam-CAN,
  • James B. Rowe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13034
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Decline in sensorimotor skills with age may be due to an overreliance on the prediction of the sensory consequences of one’s actions. Here the authors show that sensorimotor attenuation increases with age, and that this is associated with structural and functional changes in frontostriatal circuits.