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  • Video game research shows you’re past your peak already at 25 Scientists have been using video games to study reaction speeds as people age and have discovered that it all starts to fall apart at 24.

    Scientists have been using games to study reaction speeds as people age and have discovered that it all starts to fall apart at 24. From 25 onwards your brain has started its gentle decay in a warm, nursing home-ready goop. The Canadian study used StarCraft 2 because its save logs allowed a “noninvasive and direct measures of natural performance” of some 3,305 players between the ages of 16 to 44. The posh science phrasing states that, “the present study investigates age-related changes in cognitive motor performance through adolescence and adulthood in a complex real world task, the real-time strategy video game StarCraft 2”. The short version is that they looked…

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