Over the Hill at 24: Persistent Age-Related Cognitive-Motor Decline in Reaction Times in an Ecologically Valid Video Game Task Begins in Early Adulthood

Joseph J. Thompson; Mark R. Blair; Andrew J. Henrey

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094215

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Over the Hill at 24: Persistent Age-Related Cognitive-Motor Decline in Reaction Times in an Ecologically Valid Video Game Task Begins in Early Adulthood

Joseph J. Thompson ,

* E-mail: jjthomps@sfu.ca

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Mark R. Blair,

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Andrew J. Henrey

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Over the Hill at 24: Persistent Age-Related Cognitive-Motor Decline in Reaction Times in an Ecologically Valid Video Game Task Begins in Early Adulthood

Joseph J. Thompson,
Mark R. Blair,
Andrew J. Henrey

Published: April 9, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094215

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Age of decline in mental function

Posted by Jaythakar on 12 Apr 2014 at 12:56 GMT

Many years back there was an article in Nature which presented a graph showing the decline in our brain function. The start of decline was24years of age! Nature publication date could be in late 60s or early 70s.

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