Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Aging alters neural activity at event boundaries in the hippocampus and Posterior Medial network

  • Zachariah M. Reagh,
  • Angelique I. Delarazan,
  • Alexander Garber,
  • Charan Ranganath

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17713-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Although our lives are continuous, we perceive and remember experiences as discrete events. Here, the authors show that neural responses at event boundaries in the hippocampus and Posterior Medial cortical network decline as we age, and predict memory for narrative events.