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Aging and Creativity

  • 1st Edition - August 1, 2021
  • Authors: Kenneth J. Gilhooly, Mary L.M. Gilhooly
  • Language: English
  • Paperback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 4 0 1 - 3
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 6 1 5 - 4

Aging and Creativity examines the effects of aging on creative functioning, including age-related changes in cognition, personality, and motivation that affect performance or out… Read more

Aging and Creativity

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Aging and Creativity examines the effects of aging on creative functioning, including age-related changes in cognition, personality, and motivation that affect performance or output. The book reviews and summarizes both lab-based and real-world-based studies. Changes in working memory, speed of processing, learning efficiency, and retrieval from long-term memory are all discussed as factors influencing creativity, as are health changes and changes in social roles with later age. The book concludes with practical implications of age effects on creativity for older people in work and everyday life.