Author: Laura Sanders / Source: Science News
People often fret about television time for children. A new study examines the habit at the other end of life.
The more television older people watched, the worse they recalled a list of words, researchers report online February 28 in Scientific Reports. But the study describes only a correlation; it can’t say that lots of TV time actually causes the memory slips.
Researchers examined data on 3,590 people collected as part of the English Longitudinal Study of Aging, a long-running…
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