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Aging is natural, but it can inspire a level of anxiety.

Will one’s health decline?

Will mental acuity slip?

Researchers Discover Cognitive Processing Speed Does Not Decline Until Your 60s

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While every person will age differently, scientific studies have shown thatmetabolismdoes not drastically decline until after age 60.

It was previously thought that cognitive processing peaked at age 20.

The subjects had been asked to respond to online tasks designed to measure implicit bias.

Researchers Discover Cognitive Processing Speed Does Not Decline Until Your 60s

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However, this subject matter was not relevant to the mental acuity study.

Instead, the researchers looked at how quickly subjects thought through and responded to prompts.