Challenging current belief that our vision matures in the first few years of life researchers have found that the visual cortex the human brain's vision-processing centre actually continues to develop until some time in the late 30s or early 40s. For the study researchers examined post-mortem brain-tissue samples from 30 people ranging in age from 20 days to 80 years. The visual cortex of the brain reaches maturity until about age 36 plus or minus 4.5 years showed the findings published in the Journal of Neuroscience. The finding was a surprise to the researchers who had expected to find that
