Cognitive aging is often described in the context of loss or decline. Emerging research
suggests that the story is more complex, with older adults showing both losses and gains in …

The authors examined change in cognitive abilities in older Catholic clergy members. For up
to 6 years, participants underwent annual clinical evaluations, which included a battery of …

Using Brinley plots, this meta-analysis provides a quantitative examination of age
differences in eight verbal span tasks. The main conclusions are these:(a) there are age …

Language in old age has been an active research area since early experimental
investigations in cognitive aging (eg, Craik & Masani, 1967; Riegel & Riegel, 1964). This is …

Older adults have a harder time than younger adults remembering specific events and
experiences (episodic memory), whereas the ability to use one's general knowledge either …

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 …

There are between 4,000 and 6,000 languages remaining in the world and the
characteristics of these languages vary widely. How could an infant born today master any …

Analysing the relationship between gender and memory, and examining the effects of age
on the overall memory-related functioning, are the ongoing goals of psychological research …

Describes a theory of cognitive aging, the Transmission Deficit hypothesis, comparing it to
other theories and demonstrating its account of evidence relating aging and language …

Publisher Summary Many of the broad models of cognitive aging are simply too general to
account for the diverse range of data. General slowing cannot readily account for processing …