The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging: A Life Course Perspective (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)
Cambridge University Press, 5/28/2020
EAN 9781108428347, ISBN10: 1108428347
Hardcover, 774 pages, 24.9 x 18.5 x 4.1 cm
Language: English
Decades of research have demonstrated that normal aging is accompanied by cognitive change. Much of this change has been conceptualized as a decline in function. However, age-related changes are not universal, and decrements in older adult performance may be moderated by experience, genetics, and environmental factors. Cognitive aging research to date has also largely emphasized biological changes in the brain, with less evaluation of the range of external contributors to behavioral manifestations of age-related decrements in performance. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge cognitive aging research through the lens of a life course perspective that takes into account both behavioral and neural changes. Focusing on the fundamental principles that characterize a life course approach - genetics, early life experiences, motivation, emotion, social contexts, and lifestyle interventions - this handbook is an essential resource for researchers in cognition, aging, and gerontology.
Part I. Overview of Models of Cognitive Aging
1. Introduction and overview
2. Cognitive reserve
3. How age-related changes in the brain affect cognition
4. Neuroadaptive trajectories of healthy mindspan
from genes to neural networks
5. Cognitive aging
role of neurotransmitter systems
6. How arousal-related neurotransmitter systems compensate for age-related decline
Part I summary
Part II. Overview of Models of Cognitive Aging
7. Aging effects on brain and cognition
what do we learn from a strategy perspective?
8. Inhibitory theory
assumptions, findings, and relevance to interventions
9. From perception to action
bottom-up and top-down influences on age differences in attention
10. Age-related sensory deficits and their consequences
11. Episodic memory decline in aging
12. Age differences in decision making
13. Emotion and memory
14. Time perception from seconds to lifetimes
how perceived time affects adult development
Part II summary
Part III. Aging in a Social Context
15. Memory and aging in social contexts
16. Emotion regulation in adulthood and old age
a cognitive aging perspective on strategy use and effectiveness
17. Changes in social and emotional well-being over the life span
18. Aging and cognitive functioning
the impact of goals and motivation
19. Social relationships and cognitive development in adulthood
20. Emotion recognition and aging of the social brain
21. Narrative and identity
the importance of our personal past in later life
22. Stereotype threat and the cognitive performance of older adults
Part III summary
Part IV. Early Life and Biological Factors
23. Prenatal influences on cognitive aging
24. Associations between activity participation across the life course and cognitive aging
25. Cognitive aging and culture
older brain predictions about different environments
26. Current perspectives on aging and bilingualism across the life span
27. Grit and successful aging
28. Control and cognition
contextual and individual differences in cognitive aging
29. Cognition and well-being across adulthood and old age
30. The genetics of cognitive abilities
31. Blood biomarkers of cognitive health and neurodegenerative disease
Part IV summary
Part V. Later Life and Interventions
32. Cerebrovascular disease, aging, and depression
clinical features, pathophysiology, and treatment
33. The role of nutrition in cognitive decline
34. Sleep's role in cognitive aging
35. Examination of the relationship between accelerometer-derived metrics of physical activity and cognition among older adults
36. Far transfer and cognitive training
examination of two hypotheses on mechanisms
37. Maximizing the impact of cognitive engagement interventions for older adults
38. Mobility and cognitive decline in older adults with cognitive impairment
39. Current and emerging technologies for supporting successful aging
Part V summary.