It's Not Cognitive Decline, Older Brains May Be Slower Because They Know More
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 12:02
in Psychology & Sociology
You can always tell when someone does not have a lot of experience in something. They are anxious, they start too soon, perhaps confused. With practice and training, situations become rote. Athletes talk about how time slows down when they have locked into what they are doing. Older brains are more experienced, obviously, and a new paper in Topics in Cognitive Science finds that rather than being a decline in brain function, older brains may take longer to process because they have ever increasing amounts of knowledge. read more