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The contribution of visual attention and declining verbalmemory abilities to age-related route learning deficits 2015-2018

Wiener, J, Bournemouth University; Grzeschik, R, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Our ability to learn unfamiliar routes declines in typical and atypical ageing. The reasons for this decline, however, are not well understood. Here we used eye-tracking to investigate how ageing affects people’s ability to attend to navigationally relevant information and to select unique objects as landmarks. We created short routes through a virtual environment, each...
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