Next time you feel irritated when your granny asks the same thing time and again, remember that it indicates that she has plenty of time to do nothing.
According to a research, those who are over 50 and remain wearily busy tend to have better mental functioning than their less busy peers.
The findings of the study showed that a busier lifestyle can lead to superior processing speed of the brain, working memory, reasoning and vocabulary— at any age — and regardless of education.
“We show that people who report greater levels of daily ‘busyness’ tend to have better cognition — especially with regard to memory for recently learned information,” said lead author Sara Festini, postdoctoral researcher at University of Texas in the US.
Sara further added, the busier an individual is, the better can be his/her episodic memory — the ability to remember specific events in the past.
Busy people are likely to have more opportunities to learn as they are exposed to more information and encounter a wider range of situations in daily life.
Researchers said that, there is, however, also a possibility that people with better mental functioning seek out a busier lifestyle, or that busyness and cognition reinforce each other — resulting in reciprocal strengthening.
The study was published in the journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, for which 330 healthy women and men aged between 50 and 89 were surveyed. The participants took part in a long series of neuropsychological tests to measure their cognitive performance.
“Living a busy lifestyle appears beneficial for mental function, although additional experimental work is needed to determine if manipulations of busyness have the same effect,” Festini noted.
The articled first published on lafdatv.com
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