The age your brain works best at – and it’s later than you think
It is thought that people have reached their physical peaks from the middle of the 20s to the end of their 20s and their optimal happiness in their early 20s. Previous research suggested that reasoning, memory time and processing rate decreased after early adulthood.
However, according to a new study, middle age is actually the peak of brain functioning.
New research published in the magazine IntelligenceHe found that people’s cognitive ability is best between 55 and 60 years of age, and successes such as career success tend to peak in life.
The chief author of the study, Dr. Gilles Gignac of Western Australian University, Times: “The mixture of accumulated knowledge, judicial and life experience is what shifted the general summit of human function to the end of the fifties.
“So, although the advantages of youth, maturity controversially brings a wider and stronger vehicle set to navigate in complex problems and responsibilities.
The research, often believed to be the most important cognitive ability, tends to reach the peak of approximately 20 years old, but other dimensions such as crystallized intelligence and emotional intelligence continue to develop.
The researchers analyzed age -related tendencies in nine markers in need of cognitive abilities, personality traits, emotional intelligence, financial literacy, moral reasoning, resistance to sunken cost bias, cognitive flexibility, cognitive empathy and cognition.
They created two models to test this, and both found that the general functioning was peak in the middle age.
Crystallized intelligence, which is responsible for acquired knowledge, decision -making and problem solving, continues to develop as it gets older. Other features, including the ability to abandon something that does not prove that it is useful to emotional intelligence, moral reasoning and resistance to sunken cost error – then peak.
“These compensatory developments can balance the decreases observed in fluent cognitive abilities, making effective decisions and good success to later adulthood,” he said.
Researchers said that the findings “key differential psychological characteristics can be compatible with the typical summit of career success in the middle age, which is defined in terms of psychological characteristics.
“Also, it is unlikely that the most appropriate people for high -betting decision making roles will be older than 65 years of age or older than 40 years.”
A recent study of more than ten million Americans and 40,000 British households found the “hunchback of unhappiness ğı where scientists’ concern, stress and depression summit in the middle age, and then the fall could be lost.
Instead, an average 22 -year -old child could be more unhappy than his parents. Professor David Blanchflower of Dartmouth College said that the shift is not because the middle rains are happier, but rather because Gen Z is more prone to despair and anxiety.
