KINESIOL 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Myelin, Cognitive Training, Cognitive Neuroscience
15 Apr 2016
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Our cogniive ability declines with age but there are individual diferences. Physical exercise promotes cogniive health for beter quality of life. Exercise can help your academics, delay onset of cogniive problems. As you get older, your placement maters whether you"re above or below the funcional threshold (above = healthy, below = funcionally impaired) Execuive funcion provides the ilter for informaion overload. Select out the informaion that is important and ignore the informaion that isn"t. Ability to forget irrelevant informaion is criical for everyday tasks. Older adult has to take 3 pills at diferent imes of the day and diferent dosages, but they all look similar. In order to take new doses, you have to forget old informaion. Similar to having to remember whether informaion is old or new with number with a speciic colour. Younger, and 2 older groups (acive and low acive) Younger adults perform beter than low acive adults (decline in cogniive with aging)
