Mémoire et vieillissement normal : données comportementales et électrophysiologiques

Memory impairment is a hallmark of normal aging. Episodic memory and working memory are the most sensitive to age effects, while on the whole semantic memory, perceptive memory and procedural memory are spared. Electrophysiological studies, especially those using event-related potentials (ERPs), have contributed to a better understanding of age-related memory impairments thanks to their high temporal resolution: when do the changes occur during the time course of encoding and retrieval processes, does the access to semantic knowledge slow down, are questions to which EEG brings some light.