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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-1-25
pubmed:abstractText
We examined aged and young monkeys using a multiple position reversal task to investigate declines in cognitive functions with aging. The task consisted of an original learning task (simple position discrimination task) and a reversal learning task. While the performance of the aged monkeys was not different from that of the young monkeys in the original learning task, the aged monkeys showed a poorer performance than the young monkeys in the reversal learning task. According to our response analysis, the poor performance of aged monkeys in the reversal learning was not caused mainly by repetition of error responses, but rather by the impairment of understanding of the association between stimulus and reward. These results suggest that the prefrontal cortex, particularly the medial orbital cortex, is impaired with aging.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0166-4328
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
129
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
107-12
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Position reversal learning in aged Japanese macaques.
pubmed:affiliation
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Aichi, Japan. tsuchida@pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't