Low-Resolution Neurocognitive Aging and Cognition: An Embodied Perspective

Autor: Jordan Mille, Simona M. Brambati, Marie Izaute, Guillaume T. Vallet
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, Vol 15 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1662-5137
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2021.687393
Popis: Consistent with embodied cognition, a growing evidence in young adults show that sensorimotor processing is at the core of cognition. Considering that this approach predicts direct interaction between sensorimotor processing and cognition, embodied cognition may thus be particularly relevant to study aging, since this population is characterized by concomitant changes in sensorimotor and cognitive processing. The present perspective aims at showing the value and interest to explore normal aging throughout embodiment by focusing on the neurophysiological and cognitive changes occurring in aging. To this end, we report some of the neurophysiological substrates underpinning the perceptual and memory interactions in older adults, from the low and high perceptual processing to the conjunction in the medial temporal lobe. We then explore how these changes could explain more broadly the cognitive changes associated with aging in terms of losses and gains.
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