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Brain’s ability to selectively focus, pay attention diminishes with age, study finds

November 3, 2010 by

A new study shows that the brain's ability to selectively filter unattended or unwanted information diminishes with age, leaving older adults less capable of filtering out distracting or irrelevant information.

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