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Now this is one thing that got a little bit of something changing in the brain. The idea of engaged lifestyle comes out. This engaged hypothesis will come out in a lot of literature here on predicting cognition. And here a recent study showed that participation in mentally challenging activities predicts higher cognitive scores as people are older. And this lady used WAIS-R vocabulary scores, a Digit Span subtest – which she referred to as a memory test, and the Boston Naming Test – the word finding test and compared cognition on those tests to self-report of everyday activities. She noticed that people who do a lot of TV Viewing had the lowest verbal skills in all the age groups and she was looking at across several age cohorts. And although she found that engaged lifestyles to be supported in younger people up to about age 49, it didn’t hold up as she looked at the people over age 50. She still went on in the paper, by the way, to say that this is a good example of how the engagement hypothesis is being supported. And she was pretty enthusiastic about this in terms of general aging at the way to look at aging success. But when I read the actual paper, it wasn’t really as optimistic, the data didn’t really support the title.