The elements of cognitive aging : meta-analyses of age-related differences in processing speed and their consequences
Verhaeghen, PaulAuthor
This text brings together everything we know about aging and processing speed, in a vast quantitative overview. The topics include slowing in elementary mental tasks and tasks of executive control, mental slowing over the lifespan, and how age-related slowing impacts processing in more complex aspects of cognition.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text brings together everything we know about aging and processing speed, in a vast quantitative overview. The topics include slowing in elementary mental tasks and tasks of executive control, mental slowing over the lifespan, and how age-related slowing impacts processing in more complex aspects of cognition.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 28, 2014).
Aging and processing speed : history, methodology, and outlook -- Age-related slowing in a quasi-random sample of studies -- Is age-related slowing real? : investigating threats to the validity of brinley slopes -- The aging model human processor : age-related differences in the speed of elementary operations -- Toward a sparse ontology of age effects in elementary processes : the dimensionality of the aging model human processor -- Age-related differences in the speed of executive control -- Lifespan trajectories -- The role of generational differences -- Age-related slowing and its relationship to complex abilities -- The elements of cognitive aging: conclusions -- References -- Index.
Cognition
Ability, Influence of age on
Aging
Human beings
Epidemiologic Research Design
Psychological Techniques
Mental Processes
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena
Research Design
Growth and Development
Psychophysiology
Memory
Adult
Age Groups
Methods
Epidemiologic Methods
Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms
Learning
Physiological Processes
Psychology
Public Health
Persons
Physiological Phenomena
Quality of Health Care
Investigative Techniques
Environment and Public Health
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
Health Care
Meta-Analysis as Topic
Reaction Time
Aging
Aged
Memory, Short-Term
Cognition
Social Sciences
Psychology