Memory and aging current issues and future directions

Current demographical patterns predict an aging worldwide population. It is projected that by 2050, more than 20% of the US population and 40% of the Japanese population will be older than 65. A dramatic increase in research on memory and aging has emerged to understand the age-related changes in me...

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Otros Autores: Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe (-), Ohta, Nobuo
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Psychology Press c2012.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798251206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Memory and Aging: Current Issues and Future Directions; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Part 1 Psychological perspectives: Short-term and working memory; 1 Working memory still working: Age-related differences in working-memory functioning and cognitive control; 2 The interaction of linguistic constraints, working memory, and aging on language production and comprehension; 3 Error repetition phenomenon and its relation to cognitive control, working memory, and aging: Why does it happen outside the psychology laboratory?; Part 2 Psychological perspectives: Long-term memory
  • 4 Age-related differences in explicit associative memory: Contributions of effortful-strategic and automatic processes5 Dual-process theories of memory in old age: An update; 6 Dissociable forms of implicit learning in aging; 7 Prospective memory and aging: Understanding the variability; Part 3 Social, emotional, and cultural perspectives; 8 Memory in context: The impact of age-related goals on performance; 9 Emotion-memory interactions in older adulthood; 10 Metamemory and memory efficiency in older adults: Learning about the benefits of priority processing and value-directed remembering
  • Part 4 Neuroscientific, biological, epidemiological, and health perspectives11 Multimodal neuroimaging in normal aging: Structure-function interactions; 12 Dopaminergic modulation of memory aging: Neurocomputational, neurocognitive, and genetic evidence; 13 Yes, memory declines with aging-but when, how, and why?; 14 Biomarkers and memory aging: A life-course perspective; Author Index; Subject Index