It seems that a of these comments are taking offense, and equating cognitive motor performance = intelligence. The article describes it as: "Cognitive motor pe

It seems that a of these comments are taking offense, and equating cognitive motor performance = intelligence. The article describes it as: "Cognitive motor performance is how quickly your brain reacts to things happening around you" Meaning it is measuring your reaction time, you already know what to do in the situation, you don't have to think about it, you react. Which is why they elderly are so dangerous behind the wheel, they didn't forget how to drive, they know that they can't run the red light, but the amount of time it takes to process that the red light is there and then to press on the break increases. I find it fascinating that that this decline starts to show so early.