Dr. Alan Castel

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Huberman Lab · How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castel · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

And we've been testing it with trivia questions, you know, things we have experimental control over.

But I think it has implications for lifelong learning, that if you're really interested in hiking or birdwatching or skateboarding, that might still percolate when you're 70 or 80.

which I think is really interesting.

And the other thing we're looking at is kind of the flip side of the curiosity, which could be a double-edged sword is that I mentioned scams and fraud, right?

It's almost like opening Pandora's box, right?

As soon as someone calls you with an offer that's too good to be true or limited time or something, it's that thing you always wanted and now it's at this price or worse, we kidnapped your granddaughter

and don't, you know, you need to pay this amount of money and she doesn't want you to call mom and dad and all of a sudden you hear her voice on the line and she's saying, please help me.

All of a sudden you're wiring the money.

People are running those scams.

People are running, and that's an old one.

That was when, you know, younger people are posting things on Facebook and all of a sudden their voice is captured and now their voice is played to a grandparent who's like, oh my gosh, I need to help this person, you know, my loved one.

And it's preying on

you know, socio-emotional selectivity theory that we focus on family and feelings and emotions and older adults get caught by this.

And AI has just made this even worse because you're going to get phone, you could get a phone call from Steve Jobs that sounds just like Steve Jobs right now, even though, you know, he's not around.

And so we're looking at how, as we get older, are we able to distinguish between kind of this fake information and what's real and

It's not just older adults who are prone to this.

It's younger people too who are in a rush, might not be paying attention to something, more likely to get identity theft.

Whereas older adults, they have more money, they have more to lose.

And so I think that's on the more practical side of being able to identify how scams and fraud target people.

But there's a psychological component, emotions again.

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