Brain training using sounds can help aging brain ignore distractions

Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 15:00 in Psychology & Sociology

As we age, we have an increasingly harder time ignoring distractions. But new research reveals that by learning to make discriminations of a sound amidst progressively more disruptive distractions, we can diminish our distractibility. A similar strategy might also help children with attention deficits or individuals with other mental challenges.

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