Learning and Cognitive Maturation

Abstract

Healthy aging is associated with cognitive changes that are commonly thought to reflect diminished processing power in our minds and brains. Formally, however, in the absence of functional models of cognitive processing and without controlling for the way that learning tends to result in increases in the amount of information processed by the cognitive system, it is impossible to establish whether cognitive processing capacities actually do decline over the lifespan. When the cognitive processes measured by psychometric tests of behavior are formally defined, the performance of older adults can be seen to show little evidence of decline; rather, changes in test scores closely reflect the predictable performance of a system with consistent capacity‐processing increasing information loads as age and experience increase.

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