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ToolsKoen, Joshua D., Hauck, Nedra and Rugg, Michael D. (2021) The hippocampus shows an own‐age bias during unfamiliar face viewing. European Journal of Neuroscience, 54 (11). pp. 7876-7885. ISSN 0953-816X
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Abstract
The present study investigated the neural correlates of the own-age bias for face recognition in a repetition suppression paradigm. Healthy young and older adults viewed upright and inverted unfamiliar faces. Some of the upright faces were repeated following one of two delays (lag 0 or lag 11). Repetition suppression effects were observed in bilateral fusiform cortex. However, there were no significant effects indicating an own-age bias in repetition suppression. The absence of these effects is arguably inconsistent with perceptual expertise accounts of own-age biases in face processing. By contrast, the right anterior hippocampus showed an own-age bias (greater activity for own-age compared to other-age faces) when viewing an unfamiliar face for the first time. Given the importance of the hippocampus for episodic memory encoding, we conjecture that the increased hippocampal activity for own-age relative to other-age faces reflects differential engagement of neural processes supporting the episodic encoding of faces and might provide insight into the neural underpinnings of own-age biases in face recognition memory.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: This work was supported by awards to M.D.R. from the National Institute on Aging [grant numbers R01AG039103 and RF1AG039103], and by awards to J.D.K. from the National Institute on Aging [grant numbers F32AG049583 and R56AG068149] and the Aging Mind Foundation. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | neuroscience(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2800 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2021 02:04 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2022 01:38 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/82067 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ejn.15523 |
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