This was the claim made by Rebecca Saxe, a cognitive neuroscientist from MIT and now leader of the Saxelab. 这是来自麻省理工学院的认知神经科学家丽蓓卡萨克斯作出的推断,她现在是Saxelab实验室的领导人。
Researchers tested how long it took participants to switch from one cognitive task to another, something thats known to take longer for older adults, said lead researcher, Brian Gold, a neuroscientist at the University of Kentucky. 研究者测试了参与者们从一个认知活动转换到另一个需要的时间。主管研究员布莱恩古尔德是肯塔基大学的神经学家,他表示老年人转换任务需要的时间更长。
Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh, a cognitive neuroscientist who led the study, said he hoped to develop devices that could be used to help students in classrooms and elderly people. 负责这个课题的是认知神经系统科学家瑞欧-科恩-卡多什博士,他表示希望开发出帮助学生和年长者的装置。
The findings challenge the traditional textbook view that the main job of the hippocampus is to encode new memories, says Lynn Nadel, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. 该发现对传统教科书有关海马主要功能是形成新的记忆的描述提出了挑战,来自图森的亚利桑那州大学的认知神经学家LynnNadel说道。
'Our finding suggests that the adult human brain is far more plastic than previously believed,'researcher Li-Hai Tan, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Hong Kong, told LiveScience. “我们的研究表明成人大脑比以前的发现更有可塑性。”香港大学认知神经科学家谭力海在《生活科学》上说。