Your Aging Brain: Better Than Ever

Aha! My longtime theory is confirmed. Too bad I never wrote it up, just used it for quips.

When older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party, they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a growing number of studies suggest that this assumption is often wrong.

Instead, the research finds, the aging brain is simply taking in more data and trying to sift through a clutter of information, often to its long-term benefit.