Working Memory and Ageing
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Working Memory and Ageing

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Working Memory and Ageing

About this book

The rapid growth in the numbers of older people worldwide has led to an equally rapid growth in research on the changes across age in cognitive function, including the processes of moment to moment cognition known as working memory. This book brings together international research leaders who address major questions about how age affects working memory:

  • Why is working memory function much better preserved in some people than others?

  • In all healthy adults, which aspects of working memory are retained in later years and which aspects start declining in early adulthood?

  • Can cognitive training help slow cognitive decline with age?

  • How are changes in brain structures, connectivity and activation patterns related to important changes in working memory function?

Impairments of cognition, and particularly of working memory, can be major barriers to independent living. The chapters of this book dispel some popular myths about cognitive ageing, while presenting the state of the science on how and why working memory functions as it does throughout the adult lifespan.

Working Memory and Aging is the first volume to provide an overview of the burgeoning literature on changes in working memory function across healthy and pathological ageing, and it will be of great interest to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in psychology and related subject areas concerned with the effects of human ageing, including several areas of medicine.

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Yes, you can access Working Memory and Ageing by Robert H. Logie,Robin G. Morris in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Developmental Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Psychology Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781848721173
eBook ISBN
9781134751969
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Developmental Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. List of contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Individual differences in working memory and aging
  10. 2 When cognitive performance does not decline across the lifespan
  11. 3 The effects of divided attention on long-term memory and working memory in younger and older adults: Assessment of the reduced attentional resources hypothesis
  12. 4 Working memory training in late adulthood: A behavioral and brain perspective
  13. 5 Associations between working memory and white matter integrity in normal ageing
  14. 6 Adult age differences in working memory: Evidence from functional neuroimaging
  15. Index