https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/age-attention-young-archers Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/age-attention-young-archersA single Russian study from 2017 on 65 archers aged 13 to 19, 36 recurve and 29 compound, says so, and it is a result that runs against what one would expect from development. Productivity on a memory task falls with age, from 0.91 at 13 to 0.83 at 19 on a scale from zero to one (F = 3.486, p = 0.005), and the slowdown when the stimuli to monitor go from five to twenty grows from 2.54 to 3.86 (F = 3.366, p = 0.006). It also grows with years of shooting, but not in a straight line, from 2.64 after one year to 3.96 at around six. Taking this as an effect of age would be hasty, for two reasons: the tasks were always given in the same order, and the one done last, after half an hour of testing, is precisely the one done best; and a comparison of age bands at a single point in time cannot tell growing up apart from the dropout of those who stopped along the way. Besides, in Turkish children at their first archery lessons the attention score rises sharply with age, as expected, from 55 at 9 to 11 to 83 at 12 to 14.claim:attenzione-eta-giovani-arcieri:revision:2026-04-16:2Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/age-attention-young-archersclaim:attenzione-eta-giovani-arcieri:new_claim:2026-03-17:riportatoTue, 17 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT