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Wiser, sure. More productive and efficient, sure. But raw cognitive power to learn wholly new ideas/languages, no way.
by judk 13y ago
Wiser, sure. More productive and efficient, sure. But raw cognitive power to learn wholly new ideas/languages, no way.
- Patrick_Devine 13y agoI dunno.. most of the spoken languages that I've learned I picked up in my 30s (bits of japanese, chinese, swedish, irish). I also took up piano at 38 and can play reasonably well, having never played an instrument before in my life. I would agree with misterjangles about memory. My 6 year old daughter can beat me the odd time in various memory games. When I do beat her, I think it's probably because I'm relying on strategy as well as memorization. But is my memory getting weaker because I can use strategy instead, or is it just some kind of natural decline?
- xyzzy123 13y agoI wonder too, is your daughter more able to completely focus on the game?