Dr Emma Ward gave a public engagement talk last week in Golders Green
organised by the University of the Third Age. There were over 200 attendees
aged 65+ years, and the topic was "memory matters". Two of our
current final year UG students, Charlotte and Giulia, came along to help out.
Emma firstly gave an overview of recent developments in this area:
exploring different kinds of memory and how they are affected by the
natural ageing process. She then explained how scientists test
different types of memory in the lab, and some new findings and factors
believed to preserve or even enhance memory with age, such as attention,
mood, rhythm and music.
Alongside the talk, there was plenty of audience participation, where
the audience were invited to join in some memory tests, using words flashed up on
the screen, and then having to memorise them and write them down
thereafter.
Feedback was excellent, and Charlotte and Giulia were
even able to recruit numerous participants for their dissertation projects. The
organisers commented on the professionalism of the team so well done to them
for representing Middlesex in such a good light.
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