HealthDay (8/19, Thompson) reports research indicates that “some key brain functions can improve in people as they age, researchers” concluded after examining “three components of mental ability in a group of more than 700 Taiwanese people between 58 and 98 years of age,” including “alerting, the enhanced vigilance that triggers one’s attention to incoming information; orienting, the ability to shift brain resources to a particular location in our environment,” and “executive inhibition, the ability to ignore distractions to focus on what’s important.” The study revealed that with “increasing age, many people appear to get better at focusing on important matters and ignoring distractions – tasks that support other critical brain functions like memory, decision making and self-control.” The findings were published online in the journal Nature Human Behavior.
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— “Neuro Surprise: Some Brain Skills Might Improve With Age “Dennis Thompson, HealthDay, August 19, 2021