Word: hare
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...TORTOISE AND THE HARE Though some brain functions tend to diminish with age, the loss may not always place older folks at a disadvantage. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., asked a group of 256 subjects to observe a series of letters, flashed one at a time on a computer screen, and hit a target button whenever an A was followed by an X. Younger adults noticed early in the test that most A's were followed by an X, and became primed to hit the target button whenever they saw an A--which resulted in errors. Older...