Saturday, March 1, 2014

Brains of elderly slow because they know so much

A new study in the Journal of Topics in Cognative Science comes to the conclusion that older people do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because they have more information in their brains, scientists believe.
Much like a computer struggles as the hard drive gets full up, so to do humans take longer to access information, it has been suggested

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10584927/Brains-of-elderly-slow-because-they-know-so-much.html