FIGURE 10.13 Information Processing in Older and Younger Brains Across a variety of tasks, young adult brains show bilateral asymmetry and older adult brains do not. One explanation for this is that older brains compensate for the declining abilities of one neural structure by calling on other neural structures for help (Cabeza, 2002).

Roberto Cabeza, 1997 Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University; Madden, Gottlob, et.al (1999)