Lifespan cognition
Subtitle: mechanisms of change
By: edited by Ellen Bialystok, Fergus I.M. Craik.
Contributors: Bialystok, Ellen.; Craik, Fergus I. M.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780195169539
Subjects: Cognition -- Age factors; Aging -- Psychological aspects
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Fergus I.M. Craik & Ellen Bialystok; title: Neural bases of cognitive development / Margot J. Taylor; title: Brain changes in aging : a lifespan perspective / Randy Buckner, Denise Head & Cindy Lustig; title: Four modes of selection / Jim Enns & Lana Trick; title: Aging and attention / Art Kramer & Jutta Kray; title: The early development of executive functions / Adele Diamond; title: The aging of executive functions / Karen Daniels, Jeffrey Toth & Larry Jacoby; title: Working memory in children : a cognitive approach / Graham J. Hitch; title: Working memory across the adult lifespan / Denise C. Park & Doris Payer; title: Children's memory development : remembering the past and preparing for the future / Peter A. Ornstein, Catherine A. Haden & Holger B. Elischberger; title: Aging and long-term memory : deficits are not inevitable / Rose T. Zacks & Lynn Hasher; title: Development of representation in childhood / Katherine Nelson; title: Representation and aging / Deborah M. Burke; title: The emergentist coalition model of word learning in children has implications for language in aging / Roberta Michnick Golinkoff & Kathy Hirsh-Pasek; title: Language in adulthood / Susan Kemper; title: Language meaning and form disorders / Maureen Dennis; title: Language disorders in aging / David Caplan & Gloria Waters; title: Patterns of knowledge growth and decline / Frank Keil; title: Aging of thought / Timothy A. Salthouse; title: Inter-and intra-individual differences in problem solving across the life span / Robert S. Siegler; title: Variability in cognitive aging : from taxonomy to theory / Ulman Lindenberger & Timo von Oertzen; title: Intelligence and cognitive abilities as competencies in development / Damian P. Birney & Robert J. Sternberg; title: The lacunae of loss? : aging and the differentiation of cognitive abilities / Patrick Rabbitt & Mike Anderson; title: Cognitive developmental research from lifespan perspectives : the challenge of integration / Shu-Chen Li & Paul B. Baltes.