At What Age is it Easier to Learn?

Posted by Cliff on Monday January 24, 2005 @11:23AM from the depends-on-the-subject-matter dept.

Maria D asks: "At what age do people learn faster? Suppose you want to learn to write code at a certain level. What age ranges will absorb the lessons the best? There is surprisingly little research on post-early-childhood development. A language won't be quite native if you start learning it after five or so, but what about adult differences? From informal observations in graduate schools, I've concluded that older people learn faster because of their experience in learning techniques, which seems so counterintuitive!"

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cognitive ability declines with age by beliavsky · 2005-01-26 05:21 · Score: 3, Informative

Quoting the site http://www.infoaging.org/b-neuro-1-what.html , whose findings agree with other material I have read:

"Most studies show that, in general, cognitive abilities are the greatest when people are in their 30s and 40s. Cognitive abilities stay about the same until the late 50s or early 60s, at which point they begin to decline, but to only a small degree. The effects of cognitive changes are usually not noticed until the 70s and beyond."