More Evidence The Aging Brain Is Easily Distracted
Saturday, December 6, 2008 - 23:28
in Psychology & Sociology
Researchers have found more evidence that older adults aren't able to filter out distracting information as well as younger adults. In an interesting twist, this latest discovery was made because of -- rather than in spite of -- the noisy environment that research participants must tolerate when having their brains scanned inside a donut-shaped magnet known as a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner.