Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them, Study Finds

1107 points by homothebrave 15 hours ago on reddit | 8 comments

Riptide360 | 15 hours ago

Feelings not facts are all we have left at the end.

littlebighuman | 4 hours ago

I feel like this is what we have now as a social media society.

Nathan-Stubblefield | 12 hours ago

There is nothing special about “Aging Brains” in this respect. Cognitive scientists proved in the 1960s that all human memory is constructive. It’s not like replaying a video recording.

codingTim | 13 hours ago

Thought / concepts get compressed into more abstract ideas was always what I thought would happen

thikskuld | 7 hours ago

As I age, the details of what I have read, what and where I have eaten, where I heard music, fade into a gradually indistinct haze, integral parts of who I am.

onethousandthwish | 7 hours ago

Wow

2Throwscrewsatit | 12 hours ago

Tell that to mee-maw