This ought to give us some comfort: Susan Brink surveys research that investigated the question, “Who has the better memory: the young person who knows a little and remembers all of it, or the older person who has learned a lot and forgets a little of it?” It could be that older, wiser heads are so chock full of knowledge that it simply takes longer to retrieve the right bits. … [Researcher Michael] Ramscar created computer models simulating young brains and older brains. He fed information into both models but added buckets more information to the model meant to simulate an older brain. ”I could see precious little evidence of decline in [the models of] healthy, older people,” he says. “Their slowness and slight forgetfulness were exactly what I’d expect” because with more to draw on, there are more places to search, and there’s more information to search through to find an answer.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:52:39 +0000
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