Aging: Memory Loss In Older Adults Due To Distractions, Not Inability To Focus

Memory Loss In Older Adults Due To Distractions, Not Inability To Focus: "Although older patients often report difficulty tuning out distractions, this is the first hard evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of the brain that memory failure owes more to interference from irrelevant information than to an inability to focus on relevant information. "