This NY Times New Old Age Blog article entitled "The Older Mind May Just be a Fuller Mind" explores some recent research revealing that the memory/age decline may not be a true decline in memory, but rather a challenge in data mining: that older adults just have more information to "sort through" before finding a memory than younger adults. Does this seem plausible? How might this change the future of memory research?
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Older Mind = Fuller Mind?
This NY Times New Old Age Blog article entitled "The Older Mind May Just be a Fuller Mind" explores some recent research revealing that the memory/age decline may not be a true decline in memory, but rather a challenge in data mining: that older adults just have more information to "sort through" before finding a memory than younger adults. Does this seem plausible? How might this change the future of memory research?
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