Exploring the Crossroads of Attention and Memory in the Aging Brain: Views from the Inside

Dr. Adam Gazzaley studies the neural mechanisms of memory and attention, how these processes change with normal aging and dementia, and how we might intervene therapeutically to alleviate memory and attention deficits. Recorded on 11/03/2011. [4/2012] [Show ID: 23203]
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[@johnwinebrenner1231]

I am a mall walker, I have put bells on my walking stick because people on cell phones don't see me. That is another way of saying people with Iphones are more dangerous than Grizzly bears!

[@paulMcGlothin]

Great talk -- addresses lots of important practical issues.

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[@aylaturkmen]

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[@junodx7]

Very interesting stuff. The best thing about the internet is KZbin and content like this - thank you for posting it.

[@ProBloggerWorld]

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[@yogamaster16]

Thankyou very informative

[@unicornfeather8308]

Is there also the possibility that older adults aren't 'suppressing' as well as younger adults because they were raised in a quieter, more calm, less distracting and frantic world where there wasn't 15 devices or even internet to distract and pull on your attention? (And their parents before them, in turn, lived in a perhaps calmer less frantic world with fewer distractions as well.) Can the act of suppression be a learned skill due to increased long term environmental demand such as the Millenial Generation would be dealing with (due to growing up as an internet native---always having the internet in their world?) Is it a learned skill, a latent function, a defense mechanism (like the opening and closing of the ear canal depending on safe/unsafe decibel levels) or is it an ability that has always been there generation after generation, inherent but latent? What is the underlying biological function and history of suppression and is it changing due to the rapid pace of change and exponentially increasing levels of distractions (in both frequency and volume as well as potency and intensity) of our current evolving environment? Are older people not suppressing as well because they never had to?

[@AH-zz6ei]

VERY VERY INTERESTING.

[@BaskingInObscurity]

For me, I put myself in "distracting" environments deliberately in order to control the types of sensory input. If I don't control it, random distractions and sources of anxiety or pleasure intrude. And I dwell on things, often repeating a phrase in my head many times over. Just because Nature is cruel, I also have had chronic tinnitus as long as I can remember, which used to become my primary distraction, the volume seemingly growing louder; during puberty it was worst when trying to go to sleep, so I kept a tiny radio under my pillow. For tasks that do not require all my attention, my mind wanders and I get fidgety, engage in stimming. So doing homework I usually had music because most of the time lyrics don't draw my primary attention thread, whereas most talking does. The exception was mathematics and math-heavy science problems, which I did better while a TV program was on. Very dense text, e.g. social theory college materials, requires I focus without distractions, in which case I put myself in a quiet place facing a plain wall. Nowadays I work on the computer, gaming and otherwise, almost always with KZbin, audiobooks, or DVR running in the background. I just avoid the programs I need to pay attention to unless window-within-window is adequate for the glancing input. I'd never get anything done if I couldn't multitask, very seldom sit to watch TV because it's hard to do anything else simultaneously in the common room.

[@jeanhounsell523]

I sketched when bored from about 10. Before 10 I let my brain lose myself in memories or future events, I remembered fairly well. I have still got .

[@khairulorama]

Thank you for such a beautiful understanding on distractions

[@shehubelloibrahim7791]

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[@RiDankulous]

These studies of behavior are fascinating. For example, someone in the car talking to you doesn't distract you but talking on a phone even hands free does cause a big problem. The first part I did not know until now. There are many very good bits of information in some of these scientific videos from Berkeley.

[@stevefromsaskatoon830]

Talking to someone in a car definitely distracts you , I've seen it a million times , it's very distracting.

[@swirlcrop]

This is such an interesting talk. Thanks for posting it. :-)

[@ewura-abenaessandoh6250]

Amazing I like your lecture

[@samyon99d46]

Thank you 🙏🏾.

[@FromCI-zi3ye]

00:00 Intro 31:00 Attention and memory.

[@roohisualeh1290]

Sometime we like to sit in distracting environment just because you want to study in relaxing place and you can sit longer that can improve the productivity due to time factor.

[@kimdenny2738]

It's fascinating

[@lurkern]

Thank you for sharing! Especially interested in the focused meditation study, was thinking about rhodes during the talk, so glad you included the questions part! will most definitively follow this bright minds research. uctv is an awesome channel :) keep up the good work

[@beverlyl.crawford3305]

]love truth hanks bev

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[@lindacyoung1789]

This is very interesting-the multi tasking Is actually unavoidable with the media and what bothers me as much is the lack of personal contact. I am auditory and a people person and this has been very difficult for me. I have found ways to get around it and so glad people are working in these areas. What a blessing!

[@TheToeSlurper]

autoplay led me here in my sleep. im confused

[@unicornfeather8308]

Can we get an update now that it is 2019? What is the latest findings? We thirst for more of your knowledge dear sir! And we thank you!

[@djondjon]

@Rafael Otis I have seen this posted on a totally unrelated video. How about spending your time doing something constructive, instead of spamming?

[@chibuithiyen9200]

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[@funnycuteanimals523]

2022

[@lovekindness7389]

How about today memory 2022

[@user-yo7fk4vl2g]

Very interesting. Great speaker!

[@jobeda9385]

How does this apply to ADHD ? I’m wondering if this might help understand it? Does an ADHD brain have issues with the frontal lobe getting distracted easily?

[@ddeuerme]

And autism, especially with face blindness. I have to closely compare the face pictures side by side to see similarities and differences.

[@meinungabundance7696]

The main question here seems to me the question: WHY? why elderly dont supress the irrelevant stimuli better? And the answer might also be that after 65 you don't HAVE to achieve any goals, you are usually retired and can allow yourself to perceive differently (let everything in...). Even if they are not doing it on purpuse, it might be a subconsious change of attitude, which affect their ability to supress.

[@RiDankulous]

I was watching another video about the inhibitory effects of the prefrontal cortex. Maybe there is less of it when ti comes to stimuli, when people age.

[@craigsips8677]

Meinung Abundance Your body 'prunes' away what it doesn't use so it's important for older people to keep their minds active.

[@zes7215]

no such thing as better or relevant or suppress or etc, do, think, feel, can do, think, feel any nmw and any s perfect

[@stickwithit]

Is it true that studying in different areas will improve recall and ability to focus during an exam, compared to say, studying in a quiet room with no distractions exclusively?

[@johnryan8533]

Yes. It has been proven. The most effective place to study for a class is in an emoty classroom.

[@quill444]

This may be slightly off topic, Dr. Gazzaley, but I wonder whether the phenomena of dreaming might reveal a lot about persistence and memory. There is that moment upon waking from a dream in which it often seems as though we have perhaps just a few seconds in which we can attempt to recall vivid aspects of that particular dream, but if we do not, the memory of these recent thoughts, ideas, and events within a dream frequently seem to recede away from our conscious memory and do so at an extremely rapid rate! It's often as if the brain is trying to "drag" such thoughts and memories away from the process of being remembered or stored, such that if more than a minute transpires between waking and attempting to recall what was just a vivid thought or idea seconds ago, any hope of remembering or reconstructing those thoughts and ideas seems to vanish. And yet sometimes those thoughts can be brought back later, too, and at random. - j q t -

[@quill444]

The vividness of a dream or memory may or may not be intimately wrapped up with consciousness. For example, when you have the thought of a name or a place or a concept or a thing "on the tip of your tongue" (so to say) but yet still cannot recall or remember it, it can still be known as a vivid thought or memory. Who is to say that what is forgotten or no longer remembered is any less vivid for simply the fact that we are failing to register such a memory or thought into our conscious mind? I often have lucid dreams as well as the conscious awareness of being in the state of sleep paralysis, or at least I am both aware of these when they occur and after they have taken place. I don't know if this is in any way related to the fact that I have also been living with type two or atypical trigeminal neuralgia ever since I played football at age fourteen in 1972, but I do believe that the brainstem is implicated in the experience of pain and in dreaming as well. And of course, as indicated, various substances can either increase the occurrence of our proclivity to dream and do so in such states, or at least enhance our ability to both know and recall being in such states. I have found that Gamma AminoButyric Acid (GABA) drugs such as Lioresal or Gablofen (generic: baclofen) can cause interesting dreams states to occur, but Benzodiazepines such as diazepam will do the opposite and just increase the time or duration of the state of being asleep and later unaware of my dreams. Meanwhile, Marijuana almost with certainty produces only negative, psychotic-like effects, and even growing up during the 1970s when it was freely available, I had little reason to try it more than once. Given that it is now legal in many places in North America, it is interesting to note that the only notable effect I can derive from cannabis is that it does put me into a waking state of hyper Déjà Vu, a condition which I do find interesting but unsettling. All of my experiences with pain, dreaming, and sleep make me tend to believe that much of the activity for each of these functions takes place in the brain stem, and that each of us are very individualistic when it comes to the various nuances of behavior and awareness (probably of the conscious and sub- or even unconscious variety). - j q t -

[@quill444]

​@TheClassicalSymphony Seeing a thought would be akin to smelling a food: would not the thought be a superset of just the vision of the thought itself? Interesting: Would we prefer to smell a cherry pie or taste a cherry pie; to see one or to think about one? And how much does the thought of something imbue us with and of that thing? We probably want both: to smell and taste our food! I suppose that I already include an "extended mind" into what I would still just refer to as the mind. To me, there's simply no need to embellish things into superlatives and "extras" when they are already by themselves quite vast and unfathomable to me. We still don't know what "time" is, and yet we have several formulae for spacetime; I'm still immersed in physics, and yet some wish to delve into the metaphysical! And if we prove that there is no such thing as time, pray tell: just what shall we do with all of these watches? You make me think, and that is more than sufficient; and all I hope is that maybe I can occasionally provoke others to do the same. - j q t -

[@quill444]

​@TheClassicalSymphony I get messages each week to purchase an "Extended Warranty" and I'm supposed to believe the adjective in front of the noun confers some additional benefit onto an entity which pertains to a product that I no longer even own! Are you trying to convince me or are you trying to convince yourself? How 'bout we call this: Robo Dreams!? Rest assured, one of these tasks shall be a whole lot more difficult than the other! (Only in our extended dreams...) And please excuse my facetiousness; it's how I learn. Shelley is an interesting writer and thinker: some say she was tormented by guilt later in life, ever since she learned that her mother died shortly after she was born, ostensibly from childbirth. But I do thank you for your insight on this most interesting topic. Just the mysterious phrase when you said "where they are in control of" is worthy of some intense study and deep thought. - j q t -

[@goldjh1069]

@@quill444 I must say I do fancy your writing Sir John Quill Taylor, I read through the conversation and might I say I was fascinated by the articulation and knowledge in which you behold Sir

[@goldjh1069]

@@quill444 also my dumb mind probably only understood 10% of it

[@helenberber3985]

Dear prof. Gazzaley, thank you for the usefull presentation. People who work or study in coffee shops WE LOOK FOR DISTRUCTIONS, I personaly can study or work around 10 hours per day forgetting other parts of life, so making the choice to study in coffee shops, in the beach, in the park is part of our concentration proccess, but also give us the opportynity to interact we others. I personally choose also museum bars to study, it is really a happy environment. Even at home its better to choose to have our desk closed to windows and natural light. Is an isolation to produce the best of us, we enjoy it, but we are human beings and the interaction with everything around us is helpful. A bad distruction is a car accident out of the library, a good distruction is when you study at starbucks and the guy that studies next to you he will ask to share the next brake. And multitasking when brings you happiness doesnt have bad affection in your concentration. I f the phone rings when you study and is the bank calling you is bad of course you will loose your concentration, but if you cook to take care of yourself and you pass again the important pieces for an exam is eally an increase for your attention on something. It is everything about enjoying ourselves and have good vibes around. Of course, when it comes to safety it is an other topic. Wonderful presentation in any case and very helpful.

[@johngilmour8945]

is it possible that the brain's memory archive space may become saturated with aging, which may account for a more limited retention of information?

[@casiandsouza7031]

There should be a comparison between golfers and soccer players.

[@ameliasmith6554]

nice!

[@Moonstorms]

Isn’t yhwh amazing he has made us so so amazing..

[@randystevens3126]

This will help me either destroy or disconnect some nanochips inside my brain!!! Thank you

[@AllenBarclayAllen]

Inrtesting "HOW DO YOU MULTI TASK" Well right know I'm riding a stationary bike wile texting and interacting with your University speech. So far I have put 40 miles in several hours wile talking to my Daughter on Father's day and listing and texting you on your university presentation. Now later I will play the piano, boggie woggie first to multi-task my left brain with my right brain (two different hands two different functions to the same rythem) , while watching your show or carrying on a conversation with my daughter on Father's day. Pluss I'm playing a piano with the rythem section represented on all the keys meaning I will have to hold down certain notes in the chord of the rulythem section to keep the rythem section playing the same cord back up to the music I'm playing while playing base rifts with my left hand boggie woggie stile MULTIPLE MULTITASKING.! WHY? BECAUSE I'M A MUSIC WRITER AND I INTEND KEEPING MY MIND INTELENGENTLY ALIVE WHEN I'M 90 YEARS OLD DOING THE SAME WRITING MISIC. ALSO I HAVE WRITTEN SCIENTIFIC PAPERS WILE CARINING ON CONVERSATION WITH PEOPLE AT THE SAME TIME PARTICULARLY MY DAUGHTER TAMARA ON FATHER'S DAY..! MULTITASKING IS WHERE ITS AT PEOPLE. TAMARA SAYS DAD MEN CAN'T DO THAT..! ONLY WOMEN CAN DO THAT. MEN CAN'T DO THAT DAD THAT YOU DO..!

[@ArtsCraftsAntiquity]

Anything about a ketogenic lifestyle in here? If not than why not?!

[@alittlegreenjean]

yikes! i'm exhausted and i'm only at 53:00. does it seem that he is talking fast to you? i have a nyc friend who is a fast talker too.

[@fayrouzlabrouzi7784]

thats impressive but the main question that blowing the mind is how the brain instore informations chemicly and electreclic talking???

[@prasert85]

fayrouz labrouzi I bet there were lots of red zig zags underneath the words in your comment

[@kueichenglee7583]

THANK YOU 40:24

[@johnrizzotto5106]

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[@jackasshomey]

8:30 hmm interesting so my mind has unconsciously been disregarding redundant information that's not extremely useful like keeping track of time/date's and even my own age, to make room for more important processes 🤔

[@danasloan4106]

Return, but to 58:30 a lower level of ability is a thumbs down to mutistruggling..

[@kailashsingh9737]

Very beautiful sweet sir hi

[@samikirk05]

Aha! Sensory overload.

[@utj9559]

Am I the latest here, The days when content used to be golden rather than thumbnails

[@tyunbv762qpl6]

Okay, red lights on now

[@VyvienneEaux]

I thought the laptop-in-coffee shop phenomenon was due to social facilitation.

[@h4hashir]

Brains can do what now? 👨‍🦳

[@zes7215]

wrg,idts, no such ting as limix or suprex or defix, do, think, feel, can do, think, feel any nmw and any s perfect

[@tyunbv762qpl6]

The solution is simple: don't stalk.

[@tyunbv762qpl6]

That's quite tantamount to flirtatious i know

[@tyunbv762qpl6]

Don't watch Hannibal guys

[@tyunbv762qpl6]

Well, sometimes yes

[@stevefromsaskatoon830]

Quit stalking to yourself

[@Wolcik3000]

33:26 weak joke about double meaning of word "man" but got a laught XD

[@waitwhat6882]

And how is that relevant to this talk?

[@Sabaoth_]

Jesus loves you

[@Olivia-rn5jr]

I’m 30 seconds in and still watching adverts...you lost me, I don’t have time for this garbage

[@bacse5857]

You wrong

[@annedzurnak3196]

Fast forward?

[@jeanhounsell523]

Too long an intro