DailyGood

For the last 27 years, DailyGood newsletters have offered a daily email that inspires you to respond to life with creativity and kindness. To join a community of 152,442 subscribers, subscribe here.

Oct 1, 2008

"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Link Between Memory & Imagination

While most children can easily imagine themselves as astronauts, athletes or superheroes, make-believe might not be so easy for older generations. Recent brain imaging studies have shown that people use the same mechanisms in the brain to imagine as they do to remember, suggesting that older adults may have as much trouble imagining as they do remembering. A new study, detailed in the January issue of the journal Psychological Science, investigated just that and found that younger adults were better at telling details of past, remembered events and future, made-up ones than older adults.