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by fwip 578 days ago
Nit-pick: the meme about people's prefrontal-cortex not being fully developed until age 25 is not true. What is true is that there was a longitudinal study that found that people's brains continued to change under MRI as far as they tracked the participants, which was below the age of 25.
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thefifthsetpin 577 days ago
The nit is that the change observed was not development?
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fwip 577 days ago
My nit is that we don't actually have evidence supporting the idea that it stops at or around 25. As far as I know, the brain continues to have observable changes throughout your life.

(The person I replied to didn't make this claim directly, but it's an oft-cited myth that it seemed like they were referencing.)

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thaumasiotes 576 days ago
> As far as I know, the brain continues to have observable changes throughout your life.

That would imply that people might retain the ability to form memories past the age of 25, though.

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