Results from The Great Brain Experiment, a smartphone app developed by White Bat Games, are continuing to help scientists shed light on how our brain works, and how it changes as we age. A new paper has been published which uses results from the ‘How Much Can I Remember?’ task. The good news, in case you were wondering, is that it’s not just a case of steady decline. While our ability to block out distractions reduces as we age, the type of distraction makes a big difference to how well older people were able to ignore it.
You can read about the new paper and what the results mean in this article:
https://theconversation.com/smartphone-study-reveals-a-change-in-how-we-remember-as-we-get-older-41106
You can also download the full text of the paper here:
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/20/6515
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