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The Handbook of Aging and Cognition

• Edited by Fergus Craik, Timothy A. Salthouse

• Price: $175.00
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 704
• Published by: Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
• Publication Date: 1st December 1999
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-2966-2

About the Book

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues have been generated in the past 10 years. This second edition reviews new findings and theories, enables the reader to assess where the field is today, and evaluates its points of growth.

The chapters are organized to run from a consideration of the neural correlates of age-related changes in cognition, through the "mainstream" topics of perception, attention, memory, and language, to more applied areas, and finally to reviews of cognitive changes in the contexts of emotion, motivation, and personality. This edition has a broader scope than the first, progressing from structural changes in the brain to a consideration of changes in the self concept and in social cognition.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. N. Raz, Aging of the Brain and Its Impact on Cognitive Performance: Integration of Structural and Functional Findings. M.W. Prull, J.D.E. Gabrieli, S.A. Bunge, Age-Related Changes in Memory: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective. B.A. Schneider, M.K. Pichora-Fuller, Implications of Perceptual Deterioration for Cognitive Aging Research. J.M. McDowd, R.J. Shaw, Attention and Aging: A Functional Perspective. R.T. Zacks, L. Hasher, K.Z.H. Li, Human Memory. A. Wingfield, E.A.L. Stine-Morrow, Language and Speech. C. Hertzog, D.F. Hultsch, Metacognition in Adulthood and Old Age. T.A. Salthouse, Methodological Assumptions in Cognitive Aging Research. L. Bächman, B.J. Small, Å. Wahlin, M. Larsson, Cognitive Functioning in Very Old Age. W.A. Roger, A.D. Fisk, Human Factors, Applied Cognition, and Aging. D.M. Isaacowitz, S.T. Charles, L.L. Carstensen, Emotion and Cognition. U.M. Staudinger, M. Pasupathi, Life-Span Perspectives on Self, Personality, and Social Cognition. T.A. Salthouse, F.I.M. Craik, Closing Comments.