ABSTRACT
Current demographical patterns predict an aging worldwide population. It is projected that by 2050, more than 20% of the US population and 40% of the Japanese population will be older than 65. A dramatic increase in research on memory and aging has emerged to understand the age-related changes in memory since the ability to learn new information and retrieve previously learned information is essential for successful aging, and allows older adults to adapt to changes in their environment, self-concept, and social roles.
This volume represents the latest psychological research on different aspects of age-related changes in memory. Written by a group of leading international researchers, its chapters cover a broad array of issues concerning the changes that occur in memory as people grow older, including the mechanisms and processes underlying these age-related memory changes, how these changes interact with social and cultural environments, and potential programs intended to increase memory performance in old age. Similarly, the chapters draw upon diverse methodological approaches, including cross-cultural extreme group experimental designs, longitudinal designs assessing intra-participant change, and computational approaches and neuroimaging assessment. Together, they provide converging evidence for stability and change in memory as people grow older, for the underlying causes of these patterns, as well as for the heterogeneity in older adults’ performance.
Memory and Aging is essential reading for researchers in memory, cognitive aging, and gerontology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|67 pages
Psychological perspectives: Short-term and working memory
chapter 1|28 pages
Working memory still working
chapter 3|19 pages
Error repetition phenomenon and its relation to cognitive control, working memory, and aging
part 2|111 pages
Psychological perspectives: Long-term memory
chapter 4|25 pages
Age-related differences in explicit associative memory
part 3|84 pages
Social, emotional, and cultural perspectives
chapter 10|20 pages
Metamemory and memory efficiency in older adults
part 4|102 pages
Neuroscientific, Biological, Epidemiological, and Health Perspectives