Older people more focused than younger adults – study
Older people are more focused, less anxious, and less mentally restless than younger adults, a newly published Irish study is reporting.
Researchers from the Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN) at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) found that older adults appeared to mitigate the negative aspects of cognitive decline by increasing motivation and adopting more efficient strategies to suspend the wandering mind when focus was required.
The paper, published in the February 2021 edition of the American Psychological Association’s journal
Psychology and Aging (
PAA), was the first to investigate competing theories of age-related mind-wandering.
The ‘Dockree Lab’ team at TCIN, in a collaboration with Prof. Alan Smeaton from Dublin City University, looked at whether the nature and frequency of mind-wandering changed with age.
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