Even healthy brains become less efficient as they age, but they do so at different rates for different tasks in different people. “In particular, those that selectively respond to visual scenes seem to be the most sensitive.”The article was published April 27 in the Society for Neuroscience’s eNeuro journal. UT Dallas cognition and neuroscience doctoral student Sabina Srokova, the lead author of the paper, explained the importance of determining the nature of the difference in processing scenes across age. “You accumulate experience gradually in processing scenes. “We don’t know if this reflects something special about scenes themselves, or about these particular brain regions.