As our society ages, the topic of cognitive aging is becoming increasingly important. This volume provides an accessible overview of how the cognitive system ch

Over a half-century of research has documented the fact that people of different ages perform at different levels on a variety of tests of cognitive functioning

For a variety of reasons, there has been an explosion of interest in research on aging over the past few years. The reasons include an awareness that a large an

Decades of research have demonstrated that normal aging is accompanied by cognitive change. Much of this change has been conceptualized as a decline in function