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adolescent-hypothesis
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Pereira Campos and Koff note that the MIT study involved only adults aged 18 to 39 and hypothesize that cognitive debt, possibly temporary in adults, could be developmental in adolescents, whose executive functions mature between ages 10 and 20; they stress that this is an untested hypothesis.
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Whilst the cognitive debt that Kosmyna and colleagues described in adults may be temporary, in children and adolescents it could be developmental. That is the distinction this paper sets out to examine. None of this has been demonstrated. What follows is a hypothesis.
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