Reposted by Coumarane Tirou
Why are younger children so good at learning new skills?
One reason may be that they are better at a fundamental cognitive mechanism: statistical learning.
We followed the same children from age 7 to 14 and found that this learning gradually decreases as they grow older.
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Longitudinal evidence for decreasing statistical learning abilities across childhood - Nature Communications
Through statistical learning, people extract patterns from the environment to predict future events. In a longitudinal study, the authors show that statistical learning declines with age and that high...
