Artículo
Human behavioral complexity peaks at age 25
Autor/es | Zenil, Hector
Soler Toscano, Fernando Delahaye, Jean-Paul Brugger, Peter Gauvrit, Nicolas |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filosofía y Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia |
Fecha de publicación | 2017 |
Fecha de depósito | 2017-05-23 |
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Resumen | Random Item Generation tasks (RIG) are commonly used to assess high cognitive abilities such as inhibition or sustained attention. They also draw upon our approximate sense of complexity. A detrimental effect of aging on ... Random Item Generation tasks (RIG) are commonly used to assess high cognitive abilities such as inhibition or sustained attention. They also draw upon our approximate sense of complexity. A detrimental effect of aging on pseudo-random productions has been demonstrated for some tasks, but little is as yet known about the developmental curve of cognitive complexity over the lifespan. We investigate the complexity trajectory across the lifespan of human responses to five common RIG tasks, using a large sample (n = 3429). Our main finding is that the developmental curve of the estimated algorithmic complexity of responses is similar to what may be expected of a measure of higher cognitive abilities, with a performance peak around 25 and a decline starting around 60, suggesting that RIG tasks yield good estimates of such cognitive abilities. Our study illustrates that very short strings of, i.e., 10 items, are sufficient to have their complexity reliably estimated and to allow the documentation of an age-dependent decline in the approximate sense of complexity. |
Cita | Zenil, H., Soler Toscano, F., Delahaye, J., Brugger, P. y Gauvrit, N. (2017). Human behavioral complexity peaks at age 25. PLoS Computational Biology, 13 (4), 1-14. |
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