often happens that when a person over 60 years of age you forget a name or an important fact, those around him think he's losing his mental capacity. Certainly, some people's brain deteriorates dramatically with the passage of time. However, in many cases what happens to the older person who has difficulty remembering names, dates or data is not who is suffering from a loss of capabilities mental or is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Rather what happens is that as the years pass the brain accumulates information. This makes the person has a problem concentrating on a single datum. Although, that in this way, this might seem a disadvantage, in many situations it may be advantageous. The brains of young people tend to process information more quickly because they have so many stored data processing, and many mental associations between various information. In reading and interpreting texts generally young people move more but are subject to the interpretation or draw conclusions from what they read. So with various situations of daily living. Older people to have more data available can better analyze and solve problems more accurate albeit more slowly than younger people.
sometimes arise in situations where no one knows exactly what information is important or that could become important to change any circumstance. The already mentioned characteristics of older people can make these young people are better preparadaslas to evaluate these situations.
A researcher who has recently paid attention to this phenomenon is Lynn Hasher professor of psychology at the University of Toronto in Canada collaborated in a review of related studies published in a recent book entitled Progress in Brain Research published by the Elsevier Company.
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