| Sumario: | Drawing insights from developmental neuroscience and individual-differences psychology, Levitin attempts to challenge received notions of the incremental deficits that accompany the ageing brain, by offering a seductive alternative narrative. Levitin reconnects old age with wisdom, since, as we age, our brains become better at pattern matching and abstraction "to extract common points from prior experience… to make predictions about what is likely to happen next". In the brain the medial temporal lobe, and particularly the hippocampus, are crucial for forming some kinds of explicit memory (but not for implicit memory), and it's these regions that decay and shrink with age and Alzheimer's.
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