Kind of makes you wonder who paid for this study! However, I still say..............don't screw with old people!
Old age and treachery shall overcome youth and skill!
Brains of older people are slow because they know so much
The brains of older people only appear to slow down because they have so much information to compute, much like a full-up hard drive, scientists believe.
Older people have so much information in their brain that it takes longer for them to access it, scientists believe. Older people do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because they have more information in their brains, scientists believe.
Much like a computer struggles as the hard drive gets full up, so to do humans take longer to access information, it has been suggested.
Researchers say this slowing down it is not the same as cognitive decline.
“The human brain works slower in old age,” said Dr. Michael Ramscar, “but only because we have stored more information over time.”
“The brains of older people do not get weak. On the contrary, they simply know more.”
