Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Does Puberty Make You Stupid?

Mild stress is advantageous to learning in adolescence

"Actually, mild stress has been shown to improve learning in people; too much does the opposite. Smith wonders whether the discovery may help explain certain learning declines, like the drop-off in the ability to learn to speak a foreign language without an accent, which occurs sometime around puberty."

2 comments:

  1. It sure makes you feel less confident.

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  2. Let's talk about all the things that do make one stupid. I would love to see a post on that.

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