When does cognitive functioning peak? The asynchronous rise and fall of different cognitive abilities across the life span.

Different Measure of Intelligence Peak at Different Ages

One potential concern with cross-sectional data is that it may be subject to cohort effects. Our findings in Experiment 2 are consistent with the possibility that people born in 1945 have unusually large vocabularies, people born in 1980 have unusually good working memory, and people born in 1990 have unusually fast…

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• aging
• cognition
• mental decline