Re:Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019)
by Wowfunhappy on Thursday November 04, 2021 @01:04PM
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> I can definitely say that the speeding up is far greater than any cognitive decline I’ve had so far.
"Cognitive decline" is probably the wrong way to think about it. Your cognition changes as you age.
When you're young, you're inundated with lots of information. You can process that information quickly, but you don't know which signals are important.
As you age, you learn what information is important, and what can be filtered out. So even if you're slower, your brain can work more efficiently. It also knows how to take shortcuts.
...at least, that's what I remember reading in my college Psychology textbook five years ago, and it jives with the current article.
"Cognitive decline" is probably the wrong way to think about it. Your cognition changes as you age.
When you're young, you're inundated with lots of information. You can process that information quickly, but you don't know which signals are important.
As you age, you learn what information is important, and what can be filtered out. So even if you're slower, your brain can work more efficiently. It also knows how to take shortcuts.
...at least, that's what I remember reading in my college Psychology textbook five years ago, and it jives with the current article.