Native English speaker: I’d only be worried if the titles of scientific papers in particular used to be clear to you, as scientific papers are often hard enough even for me, and I’m a listed author on one[0].

In this case:

> Life cycle patterns of cognitive performance over the long run

I’m not sure why it needs any words after “performance”.

[0] technically, and ages ago: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250219248_Bottom-up...

Not just you, even as a native speaker this is very hard to parse. The title is ambiguous on its own (are "life cycle" and "long run" referring to the same thing?) and the abstract is very unclear.