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At the centre Memory does not simply decline with age — an older brain's job changes to passing on accumulated knowledge rather than forming new episodic memories. Holds CRCharan Ranganath Read this korrent →

• Similar wording Having both episodic and semantic memory is what lets a mind change on a dime without erasing what it already learned, and it is why humans can learn from so little data. Holds CRCharan Ranganath
• Similar wording Knowledge decays fast when it goes unused, while the feeling a class left behind lasts for decades. Holds AMAdam Mastroianni
• Similar wording Curiosity does not simply fade with age: the general disposition declines while curiosity aroused by a particular thing you care about actually increases. Holds ACAlan Castel
• Similar wording The point of a good memory is not to remember more but to remember better, because forgetting most of what you experience is what human brains are built to do. Holds CRCharan Ranganath
• Similar wording We lose cognitive function with age largely because adults refuse to be bad at things, and so stop giving the brain the novel input that maintains it. Holds TWTommy Wood
• Similar wording Five hours a week with grandchildren goes with better memory in older adults, and more than twenty hours a week does not. Holds ACAlan Castel
• Similar wording Every age of life is less deadly than it was for the generation before, not just childhood. Holds SDSaloni Dattani
• Similar wording Seeing something many times does not put it into memory: familiarity with a thing and knowledge of it are different, and people confuse the two constantly. Holds ACAlan Castel