Memory doesn’t fade with age.

Memory doesn’t necessarily fade with age. New research shows the ability to recognize and remember faces is sharpest in our 30s.

Experts say people are best at many mental tasks, such as recalling names and quickly processing new information, in their 20s.

But a group of researchers has found that the ability to recognize faces may take more time to mature. Laura Germine, a graduate student in the psychology department at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, bases the conclusion on a study involving some 44,000 volunteers between the ages of 10 and 70. They were asked, online, to memorize and identify unfamiliar faces.

Germine says the recognition success rate got better with age, up to a point. “What we found is not only did it really change in adolescence, but it actually changed in early adulthood as well.  In fact, the ability didn’t peak until the early 30s, which was actually very surprising for us.”

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