随着年龄增长,常常会觉得学习变得比过去更难了。为什么会这样?大脑随年龄发生了哪些变化,导致获取新信息变得困难了?我们能做些什么来避免思维的衰退吗?
This is a topic I’ve been asked about a lot, but until recently one that I didn’t know much about.Aging wasn’t a topic I spent much time researching in my book Ultralearning, preferring to focus on principles of learning that are universal.
这是我经常被问到的一个问题,但直到不久前,我对此都了解不多。 衰老不是我在《超速学习》书中花大量时间研究的主题,我更关注通用的学习原则。
Recently, however, I decided to dig into some of the research on cognitive aging to see how our learning is impacted by getting older.
不过,最近我决定深入了解一些关于认知老化的研究,看看我们的学习能力是如何受年龄增长的影响的。
Learning slows with age
学习随年龄增长而变慢
The first clear finding is that the feeling that one is getting slower mentally as we age is not an illusion-countless studies reinforce