Scientists have made an incredible discovery, proving in fact age affect intelligence!

All are accustomed to think that our mental abilities reach their peak years, so to twenty, and then start to gradually decline. We often observe that with age a person starts to think more slowly, but surely everyone will remember and a couple of very sober and sharp-witted old man who can give odds even the young. What is the reason for this discrepancy, or perhaps intellectual impairment affects not all?

Psychologists at MIT decided to find the answer to this question is the fact that they have discovered, destroys all our ideas about the age and mental abilities.

Scientists have conducted a series of tests on humans of different ages: tasks that tested different types of skills, we addressed both live and online. This allowed to reach a huge number of participants - 3 million people, which makes them very valuable observation.



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After processing the tests, the researchers concluded that the different types of mental activities reach their peak at different ages, and that very often it is not 20 years. So, the peak of the ability to recognize faces and short-term visual memory is necessary for 30 years.

Also, we found out that the speed of information processing grows up to 18-19 years, and then begins to decline gradually. Peak memory capacity falls short of 25 years and remains at the same level until approximately age 35. There are also more recent duration, such as pattern recognition skills emotional state of people. It reaches its maximum in 40-50 years.

Most surprising of all discoveries was that the dictionary memory of the person, which is the main indicator of the memory, growing almost to the end of life. Scientists say that this may be due to the fact that modern man constantly have to deal with huge amounts of data, so we can keep intellectually rich life even up to 100 years.

But in this study did not consider the economic, social, and other factors that are likely to have a major impact on human mental activity. There have been earlier experiments of this kind, which showed that the reaction rate of the old brain a little slower than the young, but nevertheless, it could well disperse!

Very pleased that the scientists were able to unveil in this area of ​​our lives. We look forward to further research and even more stunning results. Share this article with your friends, they probably did not yet know!

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