Researchers have said that younger people’s memories seem better because they are able to retrieve them in higher definition. Under the mentorship of Dr. Brandon Ally Philip Ko of Vanderbilt University in the US led the research team to focus on visual working memory a person’s ability to briefly retain a limited amount of visual information in the absence of visual stimuli. Their examination of why this function is reduced during the course of healthy aging took the multiple stages of encoding maintenance and the retrieval of memorized information into account. They ran 11 older adults of around 67 years
