“When it comes to mental well-being, there may be lessons to be learned from older adults and their brains.”
We give a lot of importance to give focus and attention and perhaps much less to our cognitive capacity for inhibition. It is the ability of an individual to deliberately choose a more thoughtful, and therefore appropriate, solution in order to achieve an objective.
The Open Mind Neurotechnologies “Cognitive and emotional assesment with VR” hihlights the combination of these 2 indicators.
The latest researches seem to agree that this inhibition increases slightly with age. Indeed, while it is true that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex degrades with aging, the inferior frontal cortex may pick up the slack for older adults when concentrating on a task.
