Scientists have found the reason for the deterioration of memory with age.
American scientists conducted a simple study in which found out why the elderly are worse remember certain events than younger representatives of humanity. The corresponding article was published in the scientific journal neuropsychologia is.
Scientists say that the elderly hard to remember details of conversations or events because a lot of attention to focus on remembering the different kinds of irritants that accompanied events.
Thus, the elderly can not remember the essence due to the fact that their memory is “littered” with various unnecessary information, such as other people’s conversations, music and the like. This conclusion was the result of the study, during which the elderly and the youth are invited to browse various photos and pictures.
The experiment participants had to remember the picture on the cards, while scientists strongly are they distracting, shifting attention to completely different pictures.
An hour later, after viewing the photo, the researchers asked older and younger people to remember what was depicted on the first picture. Both groups of people have not coped with this task because it is more focused on the “stimuli”. However, the question neuroscientists are sure about whether the participants in their responses, retirees, unlike the young, began to doubt and to deny the previous results.
As scientists found out, the elderly longer remembered what he saw on the first pictures because of the distracting pictures fully “clogged” their memory. After researchers questioned their answers, they began to think even more. According to neurophysiologists, is a property inherent to many seniors, making them extremely vulnerable to scams and various scams.
