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by Finn Jensen
As we get older many things changes. Body and mind is not as it
use to be when we where younger.
Lets take a look on what really
happens to you.
Memory Decline
The ability to encode new memories of events or facts and working
memory show decline in both cross-sectional and longitudinal
studies. These deficits might be related to impairments seen in the
ability to refresh recently processed information. Even when equated
in memory for a particular item or fact, older adults have a
tendency to be worse at remembering the source of their information,
a deficit that may be related to declines in the capability to bind
information together in memory.
Domains of Memory
In compare, implicit or procedural memory normally shows no
decline with age and semantic knowledge, such as vocabulary, in fact
improves somewhat with age. Further more, the enhancement seen in
memory for emotional events is also maintained with age.
Qualitative Changes in Memory Processing
The majority of research on memory and aging has focused on how
older adults perform less well at a particular memory task. But
recently researchers have also discovered that just saying that
older adults are doing the same thing, only less of it, is not
always correct. In some cases older adults seem to be using a
different strategy than younger adults. For instance, brain imaging
studies have revealed that older adults are more likely to use both
hemispheres when carrying out memory tasks than younger adults. And
further, older adults often show a positive effect when remembering
information that seems to be a result of the enlarged focus on
regulating emotion seen with age.
So being older does not mean you can not improve your memory.
There is a ton of methods out there to pick from. Let’s find one
that will work for you! And remember, and older mind has the same
ability as the younger mind, it only slows a bit down.
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