Multimedia
Are We Really Declining? [Audio]. BBC World Service.
Ageing and the Brain [Audio]. BBC Radio 4.
Older Brains Have More Information Slowing Them Down [Video]. GeoBeats News.
Profile of Harald Baayen & the Quantitative Linguistics Group at Tuebingen [Video]. Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.
Selected Press
An Aging Brain is Still Pretty Smart. National Geographic.
The Older Mind May Just Be a Fuller Mind. The New York Times.
A Fascinating New Idea About What It Means When You Start Forgetting Things. Business Insider.
Do We Really Get Dumber As We Grow Older? Forbes.
Brains of Elderly Slow Because They Know So Much. The Telegraph.
Older People's Brains May Be Slower, But Only Because They Know So Much, Study Says. Huffington Post.
Older People Don't Lose Cognitive Power They Just Know Too Much, Say Scientists. The Independent.
Your Mind's Not Getting Older; It's Truly Getting Better. Psychology Today.
Memory Running Low? Brains of Older People Slow Down 'Because They Are Too Full of Information'. The Daily Mail.
Older Brains Slow Down Because of Greater Experience Levels, Not Necessarily Mental Decline. The National Post.
Increasing Knowledge Decreases Human Brain's Capacity, Scientists Say. Times of India.
Are Older Brains Wiser? Aging Brains Slower Due To More Knowledge And Experience, Not Cognitive Decline. Medical Daily.
Michael Ramscar on the 'Myth' of Cognitive Decline. Provider.
How the Mind Changes As You Age. Huffington Post: Canada.
Age Shall Not Wither Us: Why Great Art Isn't The Sole Preserve Of The Young. The Guardian.
Blogs
The Myth Of Age-Related Cognitive Decline. Machines Like Us.
- Too Much Information. Language Log.
- Hot Topic: The Myth of Cognitive Decline. Neurocritic.
- Your Mental Peak May Still Be Ahead of You. Utne Reader.
An Aging Brain Is Still Pretty Smart. The New Reddit Journal of Science.
Selected Press
- Why Johnny Can't Name His Colors. Scientific American Mind. July 2010. [ebook]
- The Advantages of Being Helpless. Scientific American Mind. [French]
- Your Kids Can't Say No To Candy? Blame It On Their Brains US News & World Reports.
Blogs
- The Sneakiness of Self-Consciousness. Language Log.
- Helping Children Understand Number: It's All In The Way We Speak To Them. Science Daily. [Spanish]
- A Thinking Machine: On Metaphors for Mind. Child's Play.
- A Case For The Distractible Toddler. We're Only Human, American Psychological Association (APA).
- Smart Babies. Frontal Cortex, Wired.
Notable Mentions
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