Cognitive Aging
- 1st Edition, Volume 77 - September 29, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Kara D. Federmeier, Brennan Payne
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 0 2 4 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 0 2 5 - 7
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Request a sales quoteCognitive Aging, Volume 77 in The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series, features empirical and theoretical contributions on cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem-solving. Chapters in this release highlight Prior knowledge shapes older adults’ perception and memory for everyday events, Age differences in how emotion affects cognitive processing, How to let go of the past: Lessons from the literature on aging and prospective memory, Relationship between arteriosclerosis and related risk factors and cognition, Acceptance as a cognitive emotion regulation strategy in older adulthood, Health literacy and aging, and much more.
- Presents the latest information in the highly regarded Psychology of Learning and Motivation series
- Provides an essential reference for researchers and academics in cognitive science
- Contains information relevant to both applied concerns and basic research
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Chapter One: How to let go of the past: Lessons from research on aging and prospective memory
- Abstract
- 1: A laboratory paradigm that dredges up the past
- 2: Cognitive mechanisms underlying commission errors
- 3: Aging and commission error risk
- 4: Strategies for letting go of the past
- 5: Two potential strategies to enhance control of no longer relevant intentions
- 6: Future directions
- 7: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Two: Exploring age-related changes in inter-brain synchrony during verbal communication
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Studying naturalistic dyadic interactions
- 3: Factors that may influence inter-brain coupling during linguistic exchanges with older adults
- 4: Discussion
- 5: Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Three: A healthy mind in a healthy body: Effects of arteriosclerosis and other risk factors on cognitive aging and dementia
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Typical cognitive changes in aging and the brain systems supporting them
- 3: Brief overview of the cerebrovascular system, its assessment, and the effects of aging
- 4: Risk factors for age-related decline, MCI and dementia
- 5: Summary, conclusions, and future directions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Four: The age-related positivity effect in cognition: A review of key findings across different cognitive domains
- Abstract
- 1: Older and happier? Age-related changes in emotional experiences
- 2: Socioemotional selectivity theory
- 3: The positivity effect
- 4: The positivity effect in visual attention
- 5: The positivity effect in memory
- 6: The positivity effect in decision making
- 7: The positivity effect is in responses to persuasive messages
- 8: Positivity effects in the recognition of emotions and processing of emotional faces
- 9: Other theoretical frameworks relevant to positivity effect research
- 10: General conclusions
- References
- Chapter Five: A process-knowledge approach to supporting self-care among older adults
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Conceptions of health literacy
- 3: Lifespan psychological models of patient mental resources in self-care
- 4: Evidence for the interplay between process capacity and knowledge in self-care
- 5: Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Six: Characterizing older adults’ real world memory function using ecologically valid approaches
- Abstract
- 1: Brief review of memory and aging
- 2: Selected examples of discrepant findings from self-report inventories, laboratory-based tasks, and ecologically valid measures
- 3: Selected examples of laboratory-based studies using ecologically valid approaches to assess memory in older adults
- 4: Characterizing older adults’ real-world functioning through the use of everyday memory support strategies
- 5: Using ecologically valid approaches to study older adults’ memory: Practical concerns and possible solutions
- 6: Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Seven: Prior knowledge shapes older adults' perception and memory for everyday events
- Abstract
- 1: Semantic knowledge is a resource for older adults
- 2: Event segmentation
- 3: What factors influence event segmentation?
- 4: Semantic knowledge facilitates event segmentation and event memory in older adults
- 5: Covert measures of event segmentation
- 6: Does knowledge improve memory by improving how people encode information?
- 7: Open questions and future directions
- 8: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Eight: Reading comprehension is both incremental and segmental—and the balance may shift with aging
- Abstract
- 1: An accelerated history: The pendulum swing between language as incremental and segmental
- 2: Age differences in wrap-up
- 3: Wrap-up as a habit of mind
- 4: Wrap-up contributes to the consolidation of the language representation
- 5: Wrap-up is attentionally demanding
- 6: Summary and future directions
- 7: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Nine: Acceptance as a cognitive emotion regulation strategy across the lifespan
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Aging and emotion regulation
- 3: Defining acceptance
- 4: Acceptance and aging
- 5: Cognitive aspects of acceptance use in aging
- 6: Limitations/future directions
- 7: General conclusions
- References
- Chapter Ten: Aging and goal-directed cognition: Cognitive control, inhibition, and motivated cognition
- Abstract
- 1: Cognitive control
- 2: Inhibition
- 3: Motivated cognition
- 4: Conclusions and outlook
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 77
- Published: September 29, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 360
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323990240
- eBook ISBN: 9780323990257
KF
Kara D. Federmeier
Kara D. Federmeier received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois and a full-time faculty member at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, where she leads the Illinois Language and Literacy Initiative and heads the Cognition and Brain Lab. She is also a Past President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Her research examines meaning comprehension and memory using human electrophysiological techniques, in combination with behavioral, eyetracking, and other functional imaging and psychophysiological methods. She has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USABP
Brennan Payne
Brennan R. Payne received his Ph.D. in the Cognitive Science of Learning from the University of Illinois. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Cognition and Neural Science program in the Department of Psychology and director of the Language and Memory Aging Lab at the University of Utah. He also holds appointments in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Neuroscience Program, and the Utah Center on Aging. Brennan’s research takes an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach to understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying human language and memory functioning across the adult lifespan. His work has been funded by the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, the National Science Foundation, and Google.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor of Cognition and Neural Science, Department of Psychology, University of Utah, UT, USARead Cognitive Aging on ScienceDirect