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Cognitive aging : a primer / edited by Denise C. Park and Norbert Schwarz.

Title
Cognitive aging : a primer / edited by Denise C. Park and Norbert Schwarz.
Publication
Philadelphia, PA : Psychology Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Park, Denise C.
  • Schwarz, Norbert, 1953-
Description
xiii, 292 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Age Factors
  • Aging
  • Cognition > Age factors
  • Cognition > physiology
  • Cognition in old age
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Basic mechanisms -- The basic mechanisms accounting for age-related decline in cognitive function / Denise C. Park -- Overview of findings from the cognitive aging literature -- Mechanisms of cognitive aging -- Concepts and mechanisms of gains in cognitive aging / Roger A. Dixon -- The idea of gains -- Conceptualizing gains and losses -- Complementary perspectives -- Treatments of gains and losses issue -- Conceptualizing gains in the context of losses -- Pressing issues in cognitive aging / Timothy A. Salthouse -- Process -- Product -- Process times product -- Attention and memory -- Attention and aging / Wendy A. Rogers -- Varieties of attention -- A general theory of age-related attention differences -- Summary of age-related differences in attention -- Future directions in attention research -- Practical applications -- Age-related changes in human memory / Fergus I. M. Craik -- Types of memory -- Procedural memory -- The perceptual representational system -- Primary memory and working memory -- Episodic memory -- Semantic memory -- Cognitive neuropsychology of the aging brain / Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz -- Brain structure and the effects of age -- Right hemisphere aging -- Aging and the neuropsychology of long-term memory -- Frontal contributions to working memory, executive functions, and aging -- Age-related changes in interhemispheric interactions -- Closing remarks -- Metamemory from a social-cognitive perspective / John C. Cavanaugh -- Theory and research on metamemory.
ISBN
0863776922 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^99043572^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library