Cognitive Ability Declines Starting at Age 27

Bullfeathers! It has been proven that:
a) You can take parts of the brain out and still have a fully functioning human.
b) You can increase a human’s capacity for learning, intelligence, etc. at any age.

This is bunk. I only started to think clearly at age 28. And my memory now, at age 30, is better than it has ever been. One thing that I can usually remember is that neurology and psychology are nonsense.

Now they are asking us to believe that 27 is the new 80.

UVa; wahoowa!!! And @ bennnnn, according to the study, your memory wouldn’t start to decline until age 37…unless you are really 38 and not 30 and have already forgotten what you just read

well its just past 7:30am and im about to get out of bed, and as a 26 year old i can honestly say, i now feel completely awful.

OH, Dr. Salthouse, you found me on Neatorama!
(the lab I work in studies cognitive development/ decline, and as a lowly 1st year, I’ve been reading up on his articles!)

lol at Robolasse!

But truthfully, I think we over-estimate the horror of normal cognitive aging. Frankly, when your brain is pretty much done growing, it has to do that other thing now ;D