Memory Focus Shifts From Specifics to Generalities as We Age
psychcentral.comNature Communications.Common tests of memory involve a person’s ability to remember a string of words, count backward, or recognize repeated images. “How many times do you suspect a 75-year-old is going to have to remember, ‘tree, apple, cherry, truck?'” asked Reagh, first author on the paper with Angelique Delarazan, Alexander Garber and Charan Ranganath, all of University of California, Davis.Instead, he used a data set from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) that included functional MRI (fMRI) scans of people watching an 8-minute movie. “There were no specific instructions or a ‘gotcha’ moment,” Reagh said. “They just got to kick back, relax and enjoy the film.”But while they may have been relaxing, the subjects’.
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