Age & life-stage › Processing-speed hypothesis
Term
Processing-speed hypothesis
The proposal that age-related slowing in basic processing can constrain performance on more complex cognitive tasks.
Context
Evidence & provenance
Source-backed trail
The project corpus supplies 2 supporting references for this concept or its surrounding literature. The concise definition above is wiki-authored; consult the cited source directly for study design, population, estimates, and limitations. [1] [2]
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