Aug 21 2013
Nancy Dennis, assistant professor of psychology at Penn State, studies memory and aging.
Nancy Dennis, assistant professor of psychology at Penn State, studies memory and aging.
Patrick Mansell

Changes in brain activity compensate for some types of normal decline in our ability to remember.


It may happen more than you care to admit. You draw on a memory from the not-so-distant past, and the bucket comes back empty. Your 10-year-old child, however, can recall the moment in a flash. "It was last summer. That street-fair we went to in Delaware. The guy with the wrinkly dog."