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What Alan Castel thinks about curiosity

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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.

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  1. Our readingOlder adults are not worse rememberers so much as more selective ones: they keep what they were curious about and let the rest go.

    Their wordsAnd so, in this study on curiosity, we found that older adults tend to remember the things that they're most curious about, but they're also really good at forgetting the things that they just didn't care about in the first place.

    ↗How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castelyoutube.com 22nd of 24 in this recording

  3. Our readingCuriosity does not simply fade with age: the general disposition declines while curiosity aroused by a particular thing you care about actually increases.

    Their wordsbut as you get older that tends to decline with age which I thought was kind of perplexing because I you know a lot of curious people but we found that levels of state curiosity when I give you some interesting bit of information but I don't give you the answer if it's something you care about that actually increases with age your level of curiosity and learning.

    ↗How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castelyoutube.com 24th of 24 in this recording