In old age the brain works better
According to published research, elderly people aged 60-70 years have the largest knowledge base. With all this scientific report has a large number of solid defects and causes disputes.
In the process of research, scientists have studied the data of about 40 thousand people taking online tests on web sites gameswithwords.org and testmybrain.org that contain exercises designed to test concentration, visual memory, and vocabulary. It was found that people aged 40-50 years better read emotional cues other inhabitants of our planet, and 60-70 years old have the greatest accumulated over the long years the knowledge base. With all that in his youth the planet most pronounced rapid response to ongoing actions, short-term memory, and ability to handle complex tasks.
"It is impossible to name any age best of the best functions of the brain," explains research worker of the Center for genetic research at the Massachusetts hospital in Boston Laura Germain. According to her statement, it depends on the precise aspect of brain activity, which involves interest. "At that time, as some aspects of cognition declines with age, other as before continue to improve," she said.
It should be noted that the results contradict many scientific works, written before. But the authors of the study claim that this is due to the change in society. Together with this, it has some defects: first, we investigated people of different ages, but there are no studies for individual identities over long periods of time
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