The research contradicts popular assumptions that mental speed declines after the age of 20.
Brains remain sharp well into middle age, contrary to popular assumptions that mental speed declines from our 20s and 30s, research suggests.
Researchers at Heidelberg University in Germany used an online task to estimate people's decision-making times.The scientists showed participants a series of online images and asked them to place them in two categories - good or bad - pressing different buttons to do so. Using mathematical models, researchers were able to estimate the speed at which participants completed each part of the process.
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