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Brain Reader Part 2: As we age, our brains start to pay too much attention to that all the volunteers heard them at the same level, irrelevant of the quality their hearing. "The tones come in trains of fives, so that you have basically beep beep beep beep beep and then there is a pause," explains Fabiani. The researchers took two different measurements of brain activity -- both EROS and a measurement of electrical activity in the brain. Both techniques produced similar brain activity patterns -- volunteers in their twenties only responded to the first tone in each sequence and then ignored the rest, but the older adults' brains responded to all five of the tones. "And so presumably that might have an influence on their reading, and on their performance of their main task," Fabiani says. With EROS, the researchers could also see which regions of the older adults' brains kept responding to the sounds. Fabiani describes the electrical measurements as being diffused over the cortex. EROS, on the other hand, allowed them to see where in the brain activity occured - in this case, in the auditory cortex. Without EROS, she says, "We would not have the information that there are clear patterns of this type in auditory cortex, we would know that there are responses of this type, but we wouldn't be sure where they are coming from." It might seem intuitive to guess that the patterns would be found in the auditory cortex, since the responses are directly related to hearing, but Odds and ends - themes and trends 457
Brain Reader Part 2: As we age, our brains start to pay too much attention to Fabiani says this provides validation for using EROS in more compli- cated experiments where it would be impossible to guess in advance where the brain activity will happen. Fabiani says their study helps to reveal why our mental performance starts to naturally deteriorate as we age. She says there are many different changes in our brains as we age, but this simple experiment shows one of those ground-level changes. "This suggests that older adults may be more distractible and therefore some of their resources might be devoted to things that are not as impor- tant," she says. And figuring out what's normal is the first step in being able to diagnose abnormal diseases -- like Alzheimer's disease. Although Fabiani says EROS is not yet suitable as a diagnostic tool, the kind of information it provides about brain activity may one day be very useful in many clinical situations. OUTDOORLINKS: Newsletter InfoNutrient-Archiv http://www.tomdoch.de/work/newsletter/archiv/index.html Monica Fabiani http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu/profiles/faculty/mfabiani.html Reduced Suppression or Labile Memory? Mechanisms of Inefficient Filtering of Irrelevant Information in Older Adults Odds and ends - themes and trends 458
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