新论文提出衰老大脑或在适应而非衰退
New Study Suggests the Aging Brain Is Adapting, Not Declining
《心理科学展望》本月发表的一篇新论文提出，老年人记忆失误可能存在一个被忽视的生物学原因，即衰老大脑是在适应而非单纯衰退。密歇根大学心理学与神经科学教授Patricia Reuter-Lorenz称这一观点“具有挑衅性”，认为它建立在数十年来关于衰老包含适应过程的文献之上。材料未提供该论文的具体研究设计、样本或机制细节。
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Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you’re there? Or struggled to recall where you left your keys?
These memory lapses aren’t unusual, especially as we age, but a new paper published this month in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science suggests there may be an overlooked biological reason for it.
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“I think it’s provocative,” said Patricia Reuter-Lorenz, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan who conducted some of the studies cited in the new paper.
“It’s taking a new step that’s building on ideas that have been in the literature on aging for several decades, including the idea that aging involves adaptive processes,” she said.
来源：心理科学协会 APS · psychologicalscience.org