The Myth of Cognitive Decline: Elderly Know More and Use it Better

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><img alt="http://topnews.in/usa/files/old-age.jpg" class="decoded" height="342" src="http://topnews.in/usa/files/old-age.jpg" width="400" /></div>Photo Credit:topnews.in<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">‘Linguistic experts argue in new research that people’s brains do not slow down with age, but actually show the benefits of experience.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Tests that had previously been taken to show cognitive decline as people age, they maintain, are actually showing the effects of having more information to process.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">The linguists, from the German University of Tübingen, publish their findings in the journal Topics in Cognitive Science (Ramscar et al., 2014).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">While accepting that physiological diseases of old age clearly exist, they say that the usual cognitive changes associated with age are exactly what you’d expect as the brain gathers more experience.’</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.spring.org.uk/2014/01/the-myth-of-cognitive-decline-elderly-know-more-and-use-it-better.php">more... </a></span>

The Myth of Cognitive Decline: Elderly Know More and Use it Better

  Photo Credit:topnews.in ‘Linguistic experts argue in new research that people’s brains do not slow down with age, but actually show the b...

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