Cognitive abilities are important predictors of educational and occupational performance,
socioeconomic attainment, health, and longevity. Declines in cognitive abilities are linked to …

The ability to prioritize valuable information is critical for the efficient use of memory in daily
life. When information is important, we engage more effective encoding mechanisms that …

Some humans age faster than others. Variation in biological aging can be measured in
midlife, but the implications of this variation are poorly understood. We tested associations …

Many cognitive abilities decline with age even in the absence of detectable pathology.
Recent evidence indicates that age-related neural dedifferentiation, operationalized in terms …

For years, the consumption of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables has been considered
healthy, increasing longevity, and decreasing morbidities. With the assistance of basic …

A decade has passed since we published a comprehensive review in this journal
addressing the topic of promoting successful cognitive aging, making this a good time to …

Aging is a degenerative, biological, time-dependent, universally conserved process thus
designed as one of the highest known risk factors for morbidity and mortality. Every …

Individual differences in cognitive performance increase with advancing age, reflecting
marked cognitive changes in some individuals along with little or no change in others …

Background Cognitive abilities, particularly memory, normally decline with age. However,
some individuals, often designated as superagers, can reach late life with the memory …

David Groome with Hazel Dewart, Anthony Esgate, Kevin Gurney, Richard Kemp, and
Nicola Towell. An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders is a …