Age-related functional compensation in novelty and relational encoding of scenes : a brain activation and functional connectivity study

• Main Author: Leow, Dayton Wei Yang
• Other Authors: Chen Shen-Hsing Annabel
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63438
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Past neuroimaging studies have demonstrated the functional involvement of bilateral inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), hippocampus and parahippocampus in novelty and relational encoding of scenes. Age-related reduction in hippocampal/parahippocampal (posterior brain region) activity and increase IFG (ant...