A large-scale German study showed that the brain's speed of processing information does not decline until the age of 60. In the photo, secondary education students use Neurolabs headsets to measure electromagnetic brain activity when receiving different mental exercises and visual stimulation. Ezequiel BECERRA / AFP
As people age, it is believed that brain activity becomes sluggish and some people become not as quick to think and react as they once were.
Researchers in Germany found this belief was partially true. Published in the monthly scientific journal Nature Human Behaviour, their study found that the brain’s processing speed begins to decline after the age of 60, but not so much before then.
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Ellen Wan has worked for the Japanese edition of The Epoch Times since 2007.
