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1. xi, 438 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. The phenomenon of age-related cognitive decline has long been controversial, both in terms of mere existence, and with respect to how it is explained. Some researchers have dismissed it as an artifact of declining health or lower levels of education, and others have attributed it to general changes occurring in the external environment. Still other interpretations have been based on the "use it or lose it" principle -- known as the Disuse Hypothesis -- or on the idea that there are qualitative differences in either the structure or the process of cognition across the adult years. Perhaps the most popular approach at present relies on the information-processing perspective and attempts to identify the critical processing component most responsible for age-related differences in cognition.

Subject

1. Cognition > Age factors
2. Memory > Age factors
3. Aging > Psychological aspects
4. Age factors in disease
5. Cognition
6. Memory
7. Age Factors
8. Aging > psychology
9. Cognition
10. Memory
11. cognition
12. memory (psychological concept)
13. Age factors in disease
14. Aging > Psychological aspects
15. Cognition > Age factors
16. Memory > Age factors
17. Facteurs âge
18. Vieillissement
19. Cognition > Sujet âgé
20. Cognitie
21. Veroudering (biologie, psychologie)
22. Geheugen
23. Vieillissement > Psychologie
24. Mémoire > Effets de l'âge
25. Troubles de la cognition > Chez la personne âgée

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1. Princeton University Library

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