It was a great cafe last month. I always think no one will show up…boy was I wrong this month. it was a packed house at the Atlas Cafe, we had over 150 people squeeze through the doors.

We started with an interview of Adam by Jeff Miller of LBL that debunked many of the myths around memory & aging (some such as that menopause affects memory were confirmed). Adam then dove into his presentation on aging, highlighting the distinctions between attention and memory. His lab utilizes a combination of methodologies: fMRI, EEG, TCS for studies on memory. Adam discussed many of his results, indicating that as we age, we don’t lose the ability to remember as much as our ability to ignore irrelevant information goes down…meaning we can’t ignore the useless info making it harder to focus on the important info.

The audience asked scores of intriguiging questions from how diet/exercise affects memory to using games to enhance memory. For the full story, check out the videos below:

More Resources:
Adam’s Lab
PNAS paper on Top Down Modulation
Posit Science Brain Excercises

Part 1

Part 2