Research concerned with relations between adult age and cognitive functioning is briefly
reviewed. The coverage is necessarily selective, and is organized in terms of five major …

The 'use it or lose it'hypothesis of cognitive aging predicts that engagement in intellectual,
social, and physical activities offers protective benefits from age-related cognitive decline …

This paper analyses the effect of retirement on cognitive functioning using a longitudinal
survey among older Americans, which allows controlling for individual heterogeneity and …

Winner of the 2022 Textbook & Academic Authors Association′ s The McGuffey Longevity
Award Aging: Concepts and Controversies is structured to encourage a style of teaching and …

This study evaluates transfer from domain-specific, sensorimotor training to cognitive
abilities associated with executive function. We examined Individualized Piano Instruction …

This well-established and accessible text has been completely revised in this expanded fifth
edition. Each chapter has been updated, often extensively, to reflect current thinking, and an …

We show that a new measure of cognitive decline, that can be computed in longitudinal
surveys where respondents perform the same recall memory tests over the years, is highly …

In this paper we investigate to what extent the decrease in the willingness to take risks with
age can be traced to the cognitive aging process. We use data from the Survey of Health …

This paper investigates the relationship between the concept of activity (including both
professional and nonprofessional) and cognitive functioning among older European …

We review the definitions, predictors, and biobehavioral determinants of successful aging,
as well as the evidence for and mechanisms of underlying selected interventions to enhance …