Updates on the ageing brain
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Health Innovation Funding Researchers Marie Skłodowska Curie actions Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing Turkeydate: 02/08/2016
Project: Cognitive mechanisms that lead to age re...
acronym: ChArM
See also: CORDIS
“Our objective was to understand how ageing results in cognitive decline, and more specifically how it affects memory function,” says Ilke Öztekin of Koç University in Istanbul, the coordinator of the Charm project. To do so, the team employed a methodology that enabled it to measure the speed and accuracy of memory retrieval separately.