There is some erosion of just raw horsepower as we get older right those, you know, in terms of just speed and memory. But there are individual differences. The 65 year old age group had both the fastest neural rhythm and the slowest of this whole life from like 10 to 80. There was a lot of variability there. So like if you again, if you look at the average across groups of people weSlow down and this and that and other but there are really different trajectories and individuals. Yeah.
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