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Brain aging-and human aging more broadly-has long been seen as a process of slow, and inevitable, deterioration and decline. Today, this view has been challenged with research demonstrating a more complex set of changes - growth, decline, adaptation, selectivity, and reorganization - in brain structure and function across adulthood. In fact, research in both behavioral and brain science shows that not all cognitive processes decline with age, that in fact some improve over the course of adulthood, and those that improve can often compensate for those that decline. It turns out that the aging brain is very much alive, a remarkable example of life amp rsquo s ability to survive and adapt in increasingly challenging environments.
Chapters in this multidisciplinary volume examine structural and related functional changes in the aging brain, and the neural mechanisms underlying such changes age-related changes in learning and episodic memory risk and protective factors and the assessment and prevention of cognitive decline.
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin
Introduction
Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin
Chapter : Structure and Function of the Aging Brain
R. Nathan Spreng and Gary R. Turner
Chapter 2: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Age-Related Changes in Attentional Selectivity
Briana L. Kennedy and Mara Mather
Chapter 3: Learning and Memory in the Aging Brain: The Function of Declarative and Nondeclarative Memory Over the Lifespan
Nichole R. Lighthall, Lindsay B. Conner, and Kelly S. Giovanello
Chapter 4: Age-Related Changes in Episodic Memory
Audrey Duarte and Elizabeth Kensinger
Chapter 5: Motivated Memory, Learning, and Decision-Making in Older Age: Shifts in Priorities and Goals
Mary B. Hargis, Alexander L. M. Siegel, and Alan D. Castel
Chapter : Social Function and Motivation in the Aging Brain
Angela Gutchess and Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin
Chapter 7: Compensation and Brain Aging: A Review and Analysis of Evidence
Laura B. Zahodne and Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz
Chapter 8: Risk and Protective Factors in Cognitive Aging: Advances in Assessment, Prevention, and Promotion of Alternative Pathways
Roger A. Dixon and Margie E. Lachman
Index
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