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Wisdom comes with age, study shows
研究：姜還是老的辣

Older people's wisdom helped them outperform younger participants at taking the bigger picture into account. [Agencies]

Wisdom really does come with age, according to a study that shows older people make better decisions than young adults, who are too impulsive, the Daily Telegraph reported.

據英國《每日電訊報》報道，一項研究顯示老人做決定不像年輕人那樣沖動，說明智慧是隨著年齡的增長而積累的。?

Two experiments designed to mirror realistic decision-making scenarios showed that older people were far better at making choices that led to long-term gain. While university-age participants were quicker to make choices which led to immediate rewards, another group aged 60 to 80 were much more adept at taking strategic decisions which took future stages into account.

兩個模擬現實生活中決策過程的實驗顯示，老人們所做的決定在獲得長期收益方面要遠遠高于年輕人。大學年紀的實驗參與者所做的決定會在短期內得到回報，而另一組60歲到80歲的老人家所做的決定則更加具有戰略性，把未來要發生的情況考慮得更周全。

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。