Cognitive Aging Research: Agreeing on Key Terms鈥� Definitions
Interpreting age-related changes and differences in brain structure, activation and functional connectivity is an ongoing challenge. Ambiguous terminology is a major source of this challenge. For example, the terms 鈥渃ompensation鈥�, 鈥渕aintenance鈥�, and 鈥渞eserve鈥� are used in different ways by researchers. Most of the time, they disagree about the kind of evidence or patterns of results required to interpret findings related to these concepts.
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In an opinion article published in听Nature Neuroscience Reviews, researchers led by Dr.Maria Natasha Rajah (Douglas Brain Imaging Centre, 91社区) and Dr.Roberto Cabeza (Duke University) explained how they sharpened the definitions of some of these popular terms associated with aging.
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