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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Neural plasticity isn't exactly the same as learning but, yeah, there seems to be a thing around 27 where neural plasticity seems to plateau a bit.

But I'm wondering if that's more the effect than the cause. Perhaps it's because a lot of people, up until they're around 25-30, have a very quickly changing life. Schools are changing, jobs are changing, people are changing. But when you start to get into late twenties, early 30's, most people already have a routine of some sort. And it would seem logical to me that it could mean lowered neural plasticity.

And perhaps it could come just as well if you started having as much variance and stimulation as earlier in your life. Perhaps not as much.

But yeah I don't think there's any sort of biological limit that you just can't learn things anymore. Never too old.