Lifespan Cognition: Mechanisms of Change

by Ellen Bialystok (Editor), Fergus I. M. Craik (Editor)

Overview

This volume creates a bridge across cognitive development and cognitive aging. Pairs of researchers study the rise and fall of specific cognitive functions, such as attention, executive functioning, memory, working memory, representations, language, problem solving, intelligence, and individual differences to find ways in which the study of development and decline converge on common processes and mechanisms. The contributed chapters are framed by an introduction that sets out the problems to be discussed and a conclusion that extracts the common themes and speculates on the implications for theory building. The book is unique in offering a lifespan approach to cognition by experts in the individual facts of cognitive functioning from either the developmental or the aging perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195169539
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/30/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	11.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

York University, Toronto

Rotman Research Institute, Toronto

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Fergus I.M. Craik & Ellen Bialystock2. Neural Bases of Cognitive Development, Margot J. Taylor3. Brain Changes in Aging: A Lifespan Perspective, Randy Buckner, Denise Head, & Cindy Lustig4. Four Modes of Selection, Jim Enns & Lana Trick5. Aging and Attention, Art Kramer & Jutta Kray6. The Early Development of Executive Functions, Adele Diamond7. The aging of executive functions, Karen Daniels, Jeffrey Toth, & Larry Jacoby8. Working Memory in Children: A Cognitive Approach, Graham J. Hitch9. Working Memory across the Adult Lifespan, Denise C. Park & Doris Payer10. Children's Memory Development: Remembering the Past and Preparing for the Future, Peter A. Ornstein, Catherine A. Haden, & Holger B. Elischberger11. Aging and Long-Term Memory: Deficits Are Not Inevitable, Rose T. Zacks & Lynn Hasher12. Development of Representation in Childhood, Katherine Nelson13. Representation and Aging, Deborah M. Burke14. The Emergentist Coalition Model of Word Learning in Children Has Implications for Language in Aging, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff & Kathy Hirsh-Pasek15. Language in Adulthood, Susan Kemper16. Language Meaning and Form Disorders, Maureen Dennis17. Language Disorders in Aging, David Caplan & Gloria Waters18. Patterns of Knowledge Growth and Decline, Frank Keil19. Aging of Thought, Timothy A. Salthouse20. Inter- and Intra-individual Differences in Problem Solving Across the Life Span, Robert S. Siegler21. Variability in Cognitive Aging: From Taxonomy to Theory, Ulman Lindenberger & Timo von Oertzen22. Intelligence and Cognitive Abilities as Competencies in Development, Damian P. Birney & Robert J. Sternbert23. The lacunae of loss? Aging and the differentiation of cognitive abilities, Patrick Rabbitt & Mike Anderson24. Cognitive Developmental Research from Lifespan Perspectives - The Challenge of Integration., Shu-Chen Li & Paul B. Baltes

Editorial Reviews

"Lifespan Cognition: Mechanisms of Change is a truly exciting book. The quality of each contribution is outstanding, the recognition of need for synthesis is commendable, and the exception effort of thinkers in the area to achieve integrated complexity is truly gratifying. It is a book that everyone interested in cognitive development should have (and read!)."—Michael Hogan in PsycCRITIQUES

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