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SUMMARY:Aging\, Intelligence\, and Slowing of Thought - Professor Patrick 
 Rabbitt
DTSTART:20191108T174500Z
DTEND:20191108T191000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Antonio M. M. Rodrigues
DESCRIPTION:“The clocks throughout the city\,\nBegan to whirr and chime\
 ,\nOh\, let not Time deceive you\,\nYou cannot conquer Time”.\n\nW.H. Au
 den “As I walked out one evening”\n\n\nAbstract -- In old age\, the sp
 eed with which we can make simple decisions is one of the best predictors 
 of how long we have left to live and so how slowly our mental abilities ar
 e changing. Because speed is one of the only two mental performance charac
 teristics we can measure\, there has been much research on how our brains\
 , and so our decisions\, slow as we grow old. It is unsurprising that the 
 most influential idea of how all our mental abilities change as we age has
  been that age affects the speed at which our nerve cells can transmit inf
 ormation and that this reduces the efficiency of our memories and our abil
 ity to solve problems quickly. When explored more closely these ideas turn
  out to be useful when we study how gross changes in our brains affect our
  competence at dealing with the world.
LOCATION:Wolfson College\, Gatsby Room
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