Elderly Brains Learn, but Maybe Too Much A new study led by Brown University reports that older learners retained the mental flexibility needed to learn a visual perception task but were not as good as younger people at filtering out irrelevant information. The research is in Current Biology. (full access paywall) Research: “Age-Related Declines of Stability in Visual Perceptual Learning” by Li-Hung Chang, Kazuhisa Shibata, George J. Andersen, Yuka Sasaki, and Takeo Watanabe in Current Biology. Published online November 26 2014 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.041 (cell/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(14)01350-5) Image: Subjects were shown a sequence of letters and numbers with the distraction of dots moving in the background. Behind the numerals the dot motion became more coherent (as indicated by the arrows). Credit Brown University. #neuroplasticity #learning #neuroscience
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:03:16 +0000
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