Work

Selective review of cognitive aging

Year: 2010

Type: review

Abstract: 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 questions. These are what abilities are related to age, how many distinct influences are contributing to the relations between age and cognitive functioning, do the differences between people increase with advancing age, what is responsible for the discrepancies between cross-sectional and longitudinal age comparisons of cognitive functioning, and what methods can be used to identify causes of age-related influences on cognition. Although definitive answers are not yet possible, quite a bit of information relevant to the questions is now available. Moreover, the existing information has implications for the design, analysis, and interpretation of cognitive and neuropsychological research concerned with aging.

Source: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

DOI: 10.1017/s1355617710000706

Author: TIMOTHY A. SALTHOUSE

Institution: University of Virginia

Language: English

Topic: Aging and Gerontology Research

Subfield: Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. Public Health Service, National Institute on Aging

Awards: Short-term cognitive change in adults from 18 to 80, G7298492454