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The researchers suggested this could be because younger people make choices using a part of the brain called the ventral striatum which is linked to immediate rewards. As this declines with age, older people are forced to compensate by using their prefrontal cortices, which control rational and deliberate thoughts, they said.
(China.org.cn August 29, 2011) |
研究者稱，這可能是因為年輕人做決定時更多使用的大腦部位是腹面紋狀體，這部分大腦考慮事情更注重眼前；隨著年齡的增長，它會逐漸萎縮，所以老年人考慮問題時要被迫使用他們的前額葉皮質，而這部分大腦考慮問題會更理性，更加深思熟慮。 |
![Older people's wisdom helped them outperform younger participants at taking the bigger picture into account. [Agencies]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20110829/000cf1a48b7f0fc57ef312.jpg "Older people's wisdom helped them outperform younger participants at taking the bigger picture into account. [Agencies]")
