Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you’re there? Or struggled to recall where you left your keys?
These memory lapses aren’t unusual, especially as we age, but a new paper published this month in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science suggests there may be an overlooked biological reason for it.
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“I think it’s provocative,” said Patricia Reuter-Lorenz, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan who conducted some of the studies cited in the new paper.
“It’s taking a new step that’s building on ideas that have been in the literature on aging for several decades, including the idea that aging involves adaptive processes,” she said.
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