The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging
A Life Course Perspective
Part of Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- Editors:
- Ayanna K. Thomas, Tufts University, Massachusetts
- Angela Gutchess, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
- Date Published: May 2020
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108428347
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Decades of research have demonstrated that normal aging is accompanied by cognitive change. Much of this change has been conceptualized as a decline in function. However, age-related changes are not universal, and decrements in older adult performance may be moderated by experience, genetics, and environmental factors. Cognitive aging research to date has also largely emphasized biological changes in the brain, with less evaluation of the range of external contributors to behavioral manifestations of age-related decrements in performance. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge cognitive aging research through the lens of a life course perspective that takes into account both behavioral and neural changes. Focusing on the fundamental principles that characterize a life course approach - genetics, early life experiences, motivation, emotion, social contexts, and lifestyle interventions - this handbook is an essential resource for researchers in cognition, aging, and gerontology.
Read more- Explores cognitive aging through both lifespan and life course perspectives
- Highlights the influence of non-cognitive factors on cognitive aging
- Includes targeted summaries of sub-sections to further explain more complex points
- Considers both behavioral and neural changes with aging
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'A go-to resource for both novice and expert researchers, this timely handbook takes a life course perspective on cognitive aging - from biology to culture. Expert chapters synthesize new evidence in core cognitive domains, review novel approaches to interventions and lifespan trajectories, and offer fresh perspectives on emotional, social, and lifestyle influences on the aging mind.' Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz
See more reviews'The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging is a comprehensive compendium of cutting-edge perspectives by a veritable who's who of experts in the field. This informative and innovative volume will be an invaluable resource for years to come.' Margie E. Lachman, Minnie and Harold Fierman Professor of Psychology, Brandeis University
'This handbook, which provides a comprehensive review by leading researchers of age-related changes in cognitive functioning, is unique in assessing the emerging role of experiential, environmental, social, emotional, and other life-course factors in cognitive aging. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in human aging.' Moshe Naveh-Benjamin, University of Missouri
'This comprehensive international handbook of theories and mechanisms of cognitive aging adopts a life course perspective and provides detailed coverage of domain-specific models, social and emotional contexts, early-life influences and biological predispositions, and later-life interventions. This extensive overview will appeal most to graduate students and researchers ...' E. R. Paterson, Choice
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- Date Published: May 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108428347
- length: 774 pages
- dimensions: 252 x 180 x 40 mm
- weight: 1.71kg
- contains: 34 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 5 tables
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Part I. Overview of Models of Cognitive Aging:
1. Introduction and overview
2. Cognitive reserve
3. How age-related changes in the brain affect cognition
4. Neuroadaptive trajectories of healthy mindspan: from genes to neural networks
5. Cognitive aging: role of neurotransmitter systems
6. How arousal-related neurotransmitter systems compensate for age-related decline
Part I summary
Part II. Overview of Models of Cognitive Aging:
7. Aging effects on brain and cognition: what do we learn from a strategy perspective?
8. Inhibitory theory: assumptions, findings, and relevance to interventions
9. From perception to action: bottom-up and top-down influences on age differences in attention
10. Age-related sensory deficits and their consequences
11. Episodic memory decline in aging
12. Age differences in decision making
13. Emotion and memory
14. Time perception from seconds to lifetimes: how perceived time affects adult development
Part II summary
Part III. Aging in a Social Context:
15. Memory and aging in social contexts
16. Emotion regulation in adulthood and old age: a cognitive aging perspective on strategy use and effectiveness
17. Changes in social and emotional well-being over the life span
18. Aging and cognitive functioning: the impact of goals and motivation
19. Social relationships and cognitive development in adulthood
20. Emotion recognition and aging of the social brain
21. Narrative and identity: the importance of our personal past in later life
22. Stereotype threat and the cognitive performance of older adults
Part III summary
Part IV. Early Life and Biological Factors:
23. Prenatal influences on cognitive aging
24. Associations between activity participation across the life course and cognitive aging
25. Cognitive aging and culture: older brain predictions about different environments
26. Current perspectives on aging and bilingualism across the life span
27. Grit and successful aging
28. Control and cognition: contextual and individual differences in cognitive aging
29. Cognition and well-being across adulthood and old age
30. The genetics of cognitive abilities
31. Blood biomarkers of cognitive health and neurodegenerative disease
Part IV summary
Part V. Later Life and Interventions:
32. Cerebrovascular disease, aging, and depression: clinical features, pathophysiology, and treatment
33. The role of nutrition in cognitive decline
34. Sleep's role in cognitive aging
35. Examination of the relationship between accelerometer-derived metrics of physical activity and cognition among older adults
36. Far transfer and cognitive training: examination of two hypotheses on mechanisms
37. Maximizing the impact of cognitive engagement interventions for older adults
38. Mobility and cognitive decline in older adults with cognitive impairment
39. Current and emerging technologies for supporting successful aging
Part V summary.
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