Health Day reports on findings from Evelina Fedorenko‘s lab which found that age doesn’t seem to degrade a person’s language skills as it does other brain functions.

“Vocabulary keeps increasing as long as people have been measuring, which makes sense. People get exposed to more and more language, and older people sometimes start reading more, so they get an extra boost — it’s like a large language model trained on increasingly more data,” Fedorenko said.