This year's Annual Psychology Lecture at the University of Greenwich will look at healthy ageing and how it affects the brain.

Being held at the Greenwich Campus on March 7th 2013 between 17:00 and 18:00 GMT, the lecture is being presented by Lorraine Tyler, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, and is called 'Healthy Ageing: The Relationship Between Brain and Cognition'.

Professor Tyler - who is a Fellow of the Society, the British Academy, the Academia Europaea and the American Psychological Society - will discuss how normal ageing results in marked changes in the brain that has an impact on intellectual functions including problem-solving, memory and attention.

A person's mental abilities do not start to wane at retirement age, Professor Tyler noted, adding: "In fact, many are retained right into our 80s and we are often too quick to attribute normal lapses like forgetfulness to the effects of age."

To book a place or for further information, please contact Rebecca Obasanjo.

In 2011, Professor Tyler gave the British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture at the Royal Society in London, under the title The Resilient Brain: Cognition and Ageing. More information about this lecture and a video link can be found on our Sharing our Science pages.