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Mental Speed Doesn’t Slow Down Until Age 60, Study Suggests

Researchers say their analysis challenges previous assumptions that it peaks at age 20.

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Mental speed does not start to slow until people turn 60, four decades later than previously thought, a new study has suggested.

Researchers say their analysis of more than a million people challenges previous assumptions that mental speed peaks at age 20.