Podbit · Huberman Lab
Scammers harvest voices from social media and use AI to clone them, calling grandparents with a 'kidnapped grandchild' scenario. Socioemotional selectivity theory — older adults prioritise family and feelings — makes them especially vulnerable. Castel's lab is studying how to train older adults to detect these attacks.
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Castel resists the temptation to offer a single superaging hack, arguing instead that the secret is recognising there is no single secret. Superagers are not running marathons or eating only blueberries; they've just built their lives so that healthy behaviours happen naturally rather than through willpower. The curiosity research is where the conversation reaches its emotional peak: yes, the general drive to learn about everything does diminish with age, but the intensity of wanting to know the answer to something specific — when that specific topic is something you genuinely care about — increases. This means older adults who follow their authentic interests are rewarded with sharper memory precisely for those things, while efficiently forgetting what doesn't matter. It's a form of cognitive elegance that reframes aging's selectivity as wisdom rather than loss.
Older adults remember the things they're most curious about — and forget the things they don't care about faster and more efficiently. State curiosity (triggered by a knowledge gap on a topic you care about) actually increases with age, acting as a natural filter that sharpens rather than dulls with time.
While general trait curiosity tends to decline with age, situational state curiosity — triggered by an interesting gap in knowledge — actually increases, helping older adults remember what they care about most.
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