Title: Adult information processing : limits on loss /
Authors: Cerella, John.
Publisher: Academic Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Aged; Mental Processes; Human information processing.; Brain Aging; Cognition disorders in old age.; Aging physiology; Retention, Psychology
Contents: 1. The Gerontological Balance Sheet / Alan T. Welford -- 2. Neural Plasticity as a Substrate for Cognitive Adaptation in Adulthood and Aging / Diana S. Woodruff-Pak -- 3. Differential Effects of Aging on the Neurocognitive Functions Subserving Speeded Mental Processing / Theodore R. Bashore -- 4. Preserved Cognitive Operations in Early Alzheimer's Disease / Raja Parasuraman and Paul G. Nestor -- 5. General Slowing and Age Invariance in Cognitive Processing: The Other Side of the Coin / Joel Myerson and Sandra Hale -- 6. A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on Age-Related Slowing: Developmental Changes in the Functional Architecture / Scott H. Johnson and John M. Rybash -- 7. Laboratory Tests of the Disuse Account of Cognitive Decline / Alan Baron and John Cerella -- 8. Preservative and Restorative Effects of Aerobic Fitness on the Age-Related Slowing of Mental Processing Speed / Theodore R. Bashore and Philip H. Goddard --^