During each of these phases, our brains show markedly different characteristics in brain architecture, according to the new findings.
As we age, the human brain rewires itself. The process happens in distinct phases, or “epochs,” according to new research, as the structure of our neural networks changes and our brains reconfigure how we think and process information.
For the first time, scientists say they’ve identified four distinct turning points between those phases in an average brain: at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83. During each epoch between those years, our brains show markedly different characteristics in brain architecture, they say.
The findings, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, suggest that human cognition does not simply increase with age until a peak, then decline. In fact, the phase from ages 9 to 32 is the only time in life when our neural networks are becoming increasingly efficient, according to the research.
During the adulthood phase, from 32 to 66, the average person’s brain architecture essentially stabilizes without major changes, at a time when researchers think people are generally plateauing in intelligence and personality.
strange how this intuitively feels more accurate than adulthood at 18. we really need to consider people to be “minors” (or something) until around 25, i stg.
What if instead of treating people at an arbitrary age as ‘adults’ as if their age and maturity grants them freedom that absolves everyone else’s concern for their wellbeing, we treat everyone like people who are deserving of basic necessities and help, no matter their age and circumstances?
yes, that’d be ideal.
nah…lets keep abusing people.
Politicians: because of this new science, we need to set the minimum age for gender transition to 30. Same thing for porn access. The military recruitment age will be lowered to 14.