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Started by Saru , Jan 28 2013 12:13 PM

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#1    Saru

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Posted 28 January 2013 - 12:13 PM

Age-related learning difficulties could be attributed to the fact that we simply run out of memory space.

New York Times said:

Learning becomes more difficult as we age not because we have trouble absorbing new information, but because we fail to forget the old stuff, researchers say.

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#2    Frank Merton

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Posted 28 January 2013 - 12:24 PM

I read today that good sleep is needed to retain new memories and that the difficulties some older people have getting such sleep explains it.

I dunno.  I'm getting on there and my memory is fine.  I think you gotta exercise it just like you gotta exercise your muscles.

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Posted 28 January 2013 - 12:28 PM

Huh? What was the question?

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Posted 28 January 2013 - 12:33 PM

There was a question?
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Posted 28 January 2013 - 12:42 PM

I saw a really good documentary on the subject:

http://youtu.be/uIbFXwWJdMk?t=1m
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Posted 28 January 2013 - 01:34 PM

Ahh! So now I know the real meaning of being full of it.
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Posted 28 January 2013 - 02:41 PM

Wonder if memory enhancing drugs or herbals would lend a hand to this.

Side Note: I've been using Lumosity.com to assist with memory, speed, and overall cognition, those games on the site are pretty fun. It's part of the human cognition research project. Also, when Einstein died, it was said his brain was similar to that of a young man. I wonder if that was a result of his "thought expirements"?

Edited by WoIverine, 28 January 2013 - 02:44 PM.

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Posted 28 January 2013 - 02:49 PM

View PostFrank Merton, on 28 January 2013 - 12:24 PM, said:

I read today that good sleep is needed to retain new memories and that the difficulties some older people have getting such sleep explains it.

I dunno.  I'm getting on there and my memory is fine.  I think you gotta exercise it just like you gotta exercise your muscles.

Which could be the reason why Albert Einstein's brain looked like that of a young man when he died at 76 years of age. :)

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Posted 28 January 2013 - 02:56 PM

Poor Einstein though did his great work in his twenties, got famous, and then got stuck trying to solve a problem that is still unsolved.

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Posted 29 January 2013 - 06:54 AM

I've been telling my wife for years that I can't retain everything she tells me - now I have an excuse! Hooray for Science

I could use a defragging I think?

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Posted 29 January 2013 - 07:15 AM

i knew it! i proposed this hypothesis myself once but i didn't have the means to test it. now i don't have to.
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Posted 29 January 2013 - 07:15 AM

My Mom's 75 and a geneaologist. She can recount up to 13 generations of family history and stories which includes over 150 family names.

My nephew gives her computer advice (because she faithfully has given it and retrieves it online, for as long as there has been an internet) about how to delete her cookies, maintain her computer, or such. She tells him, "I don't need to know that, that's why you're here."

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Posted 29 January 2013 - 07:44 AM

I'm hard pressed to decide what is the cause and effect for this. Like that whole protein ratio thing, what also changes from childhood to adulthood is how often we learn new things and have new experiences

Could be the more things we learn and the more things we experience the sharper our minds will be, and if we avoid it then our minds would dull and our memory capacity would decrease.
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Posted 29 January 2013 - 08:17 AM

Like I said, to keep your brain going you need to exercise it.  I don't mean just reading things (although that helps) but leaning things.  Study something that requires memorization.  Learn something new.  Do this with the same deliberate intent that causes you to go out and take your morning walk, or go to the gym, or whatever it is you do to get exercise for your body.

If sleep is a problem (and sleep is needed to move memories from short-term to long-term memory), try meditation and prayer, in quiet circumstances, where you rehearse what you are learning, or even just periods of listening to quiet orchestral music (music with singing doesn't work for this).

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Posted 29 January 2013 - 08:44 AM

View PostFrank Merton, on 28 January 2013 - 12:24 PM, said:

I read today that good sleep is needed to retain new memories and that the difficulties some older people have getting such sleep explains it.

I dunno. I'm getting on there and my memory is fine. I think you gotta exercise it just like you gotta exercise your muscles.

^this

Something else may pop up a few years later that suggests otherwise. You never really know.

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