A task to assess behavioral pattern separation (BPS) in humans: Data from healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment

Changes in memory performance are one of the hallmark symptoms of mild cognitive impairment and are affected by healthy aging as well. Pattern separation, which refers to the process of orthogonalizing overlapping inputs into distinct memory representations, may be a sensitive marker of these memory changes. Here, we describe a paradigm, the Behavioral Pattern Separation Task—Object Version (BPS-O task), which reveals age-related changes in...