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Our brains naturally start slowing down at the cruelly young age of 30.【1】 used to be thought that this couldn’t be helped,but new studies show that people of any age can train their brains to work faster.“Your brain is a learning machine,”says Dr.Merzenich from University of California.【2】 (give) the right tools,we can train our acts as they did when we were young.All that 【3】(require) is the practice designed just for this purpose: a few exercises for 【4】mind.
Dr.Merzenich has developed a computer-based training method to speed up the process in【5】 the brain deals with information.Since much of the data we receive comes through speech,the Bain Fitness Program works with language and hearing to improve speed and accuracy.
Over the course of the training,the program starts asking you to distinguish sounds-between“dog” and “bog”,for example-【6】an increasingly faster speed.It’s a bit like a tennis instructor,says Dr.Merzenich,hitting balls at you faster and 【7】(fast) to keep you challenged.You may start out slow,but before long you’re pretty quick.
The biggest finding in brain research in the last decade is that the brain at any age is highly plastic.【8】 you ask your brain to learn,it will learn.And it may speed up in the process.
To keep your brain young and plastic,you can do one of a million new 【9】 (activity) that challenge and excite you: playing table tennis or bridge,doing crossword puzzles,learning a new language…“When it comes to【10】(prevent) aging,you really do‘use it or lose it’”,says Barbara Sahakian ,a professor at Cambridage University.