Selective preservation of positive information is bad for memory in old age – BBC

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Selective storing of information, for example, only positively stained facts, is not very useful practice in terms of the proper operation of systems in the brain, responsible for memory. People who are used to store information selectively, risk purchase memory problems in old age, say US scientists. The results of the study can be available in the journal Learning and Memory.

University of California staff conducted a large-scale experiment in which older people had to recall some vivid scenes of his life.

The average age of the 30 subjects, among whom there were 20 women and 10 men, was 75 years old. The researchers analyzed the stories of volunteers and noted an interesting feature. It turned out that people who remember only the positive details of the event, completely forgotten in the other components of the stories, which may be no less, and sometimes even more important from the point of view of the correctness of statements of fact. That is just to remember the good and forget the bad – bad for the brain. The researchers say that, guided by this approach can be somewhat lost touch with reality in the age

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