A large study has found that although people take longer to make decisions from age 20 onwards, this is not due to a decline in the speed of information processing.
During the task, participants were asked to sort words and images, for example by labelling faces as white or Black, or classifying words such as “joy” or “agony” as good or bad, by pressing one of two buttons.is going hybrid, with a live in-person event in Manchester, UK, that you can also enjoy from the comfort of your own home,In support of previous studies, the researchers found that people’s reaction times speed up from their teens to around age 20, then slow down as they get older.
According to this model, the decrease in reaction time from age 20 is probably due to people wanting more certainty before making decisions as they age, visual information taking more time to travel from their eyes to their brain and people taking longer to physically hit the button as they get older.
The analysis suggests that people’s mental speed increases in their 20s, and stays high until age 60. “Until older adulthood, the speed of information processing in the task we studied barely changes,” says von Krause. “People become more cautious in their decisions with increasing age – they try to avoid mistakes. At the same time, the motor processes – the pressing of the response keys in an experiment – slow down with increasing age.”
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