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Memory does not simply decline with age — an older brain's job changes to passing on accumulated knowledge rather than forming new episodic memories.
Drawn from what Charan Ranganath said
A korrentour readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Charan Ranganath said
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Professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California
about this idea that really when you’re older in most societies, your job is no longer to form new episodic memories, it’s to pass on the memories that you already have, this knowledge about the world, what we call semantic memory, to pass on that semantic memory to the younger generations, pass on the culture.
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