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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• sus@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Neuroplasticity does drop with age, but the drop is smaller than it was previously assumed to be, especially outside of early childhood (you may note that eg. this graph starts at 20 years old)

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As far as I can tell. They have just drawn a line on a random distribution.

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    • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If it’s a random distribution, then we can’t say that neuroplasticity drops, either.

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  this is like saying you can’t run after 30, yeah sure it generally becomes less trivial but if you actually try to do it and don’t do it in the worst way possible it’s absolutely doable without much struggle.

  kids absorb language like a sponge, adults are like silica gel, just expose yourself to the target language often and you’ll learn it. The problem is that many people are horrendously impatient and try to brute force language learning in like 2 months by memorizing individual sentences and shit, which isn’t how our brains work…

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not sure that analogy holds since running is an almost entirely physical task, and the brain’s plasticity is relatively unique and different than the muscles in your legs

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It helps a lot that they’re completely immersed in the language, by people who want to help them learn, and they desperately need to tell us things with no alternative.

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• sleen@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For a fact, until it isn’t for a fact. Unfortunately things may change like how majority of physics was disproven in the early 1900

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• airgapped@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Children absorb language like a spknge because they are forced to by necessity. Moved to a Spanish speaking country and in three years I could run linguistic circles around any three year old. (half joke but you get the point hopefully)

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