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[–] sus@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Neuroplasticity does drop with age, but the drop is smaller than it was previously assumed to be, especially outside of early childhood (you may note that eg. this graph starts at 20 years old)

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As far as I can tell. They have just drawn a line on a random distribution.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

If it's a random distribution, then we can't say that neuroplasticity drops, either.