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 …

We propose that older adults' ability to retrieve episodic autobiographical events, although
often viewed through a lens of decline, reveals much about what is preserved and prioritized …

Human development is often described as a 'cooling off'process, analogous to stochastic
optimization algorithms that implement a gradual reduction in randomness over time. Yet …

Declines in episodic memory in older adults are typically attributed to differences in
encoding strategies and/or retrieval processes. These views omit a critical factor in age …

How do children and adults differ in their search for rewards? We considered three different
hypotheses that attribute developmental differences to (a) children's increased random …

Are young children just random explorers who learn serendipitously? Or are even young
children guided by uncertainty‐directed sampling, seeking to explore in a systematic …

During aging cognitive functions change differently from others. Unlike most of the body
systems, there is no clear decline pattern in cognitive processes. One of the most significant …

Changes in cognition, affect, and brain function combine to promote a shift in the nature of
mentation in older adulthood, favoring exploitation of prior knowledge over exploratory …

Generalization, defined as applying limited experiences to novel situations, represents a
cornerstone of human intelligence. Our review traces the evolution and continuity of …

With a strong focus on interdisciplinarity, the handbook surveys concepts and methods in
neighbouring disciplines that are concerned with cognition and how they relate to …