MIT researchers tested participants from age 10 to 71 and found something they described as genuinely unexpected: vocabulary — the brain’s accumulated store of language and meaning — peaks not in youth but in the late 60s and early 70s

Hartshorne and Germine's 2015 Psychological Science paper suggests that cognitive abilities peak on different timetables, with vocabulary cresting much later than speed. The post MIT researchers tested participants from age 10 to 71 and found something they described as genuinely unexpected: vocabulary — the brain’s accumulated store of language and meaning — peaks not in youth but in the late 60s and early 70s appeared first on Space Daily .