I drew a lot of inspiration from a similar article by a science writer at the New York Times (summarized in "The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain".) http://ww

I drew a lot of inspiration from a similar article by a science writer at the New York Times (summarized in "The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain".) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030CVRU2/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0030CVRU2&linkCode=as2&tag=destinyland-20&linkId=U7MTIS4UORQHCCV http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030CVRU2/ref=as_li_tl?ie=... The basic theory is that young brains soak up experience, while older brains consolidate it. So older brains can make bigger leaps of logic -- the old cliche about "wiser" old people actual does have a biological basis. I wonder if this new study is just another piece of the same phenomenon. (New memory is stored in a different part of the brain because the old plastic/learning-storage centers have already been optimized and compressed...)