Cognitive and Behavioral Performance Factors in Atypical Aging

1. Front Matter

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2. Cognitive Factors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Development of a Mathematical Model of Memory for Clinical Research Applications in Aging

      • Mark L. Howe

      Pages 3-36

   3. Aging and Memory Disorders: A Neuropsychological Analysis

      • Arthur P. Shimamura

      Pages 37-65

3. Behavioral—Physiological Factors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Neuromuscular Performance of the Aged

      • Anthony A. Vandervoort, Karen M. Hill

      Pages 69-101

   3. Electrophysiology and Aging: Slowing, Inhibition, and Aerobic Fitness

      • Robert E. Dustman, Rita Y. Emmerson, Donald E. Shearer

      Pages 103-149

4. Toward an Integration of Cognitive and Behavioral-Physiological Factors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Physical Activity and Cognitive Changes with Aging

      • Roy J. Shephard, Larry M. Leith

      Pages 153-180

   3. The Measurement of Individual Differences in Aging: The Distinction Between Usual and Successful Aging

      • Michael J. Stones, Albert Kozma, Ted E. Hannah

      Pages 181-218

5. Discussion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. Cognition, Motor Behavior, and the Assessment of Atypical Aging

      • Timothy A. Salthouse

      Pages 221-235

6. Back Matter

   Pages 237-258

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It is a truism that as we age there are a number of underlying physiological changes conspiring to alter our level of behavioral and cognitive function­ ing. Despite the inherent interrelatedness of these behavioral and cognitive changes, all too often the papers we read confine themselves to specific, isolated components of the developing process. Although exceptions nat­ urally exist, we believe that these exceptions should become rule. Although an integrated approach is important in all areas of adult devel­ opment, it is perhaps particularly germane in the study of atypical aging. Here, changes in overall functioning can occur in rapid succession, with the synchrony of decline between different subprocesses making it difficult to factor changes in one process from changes in another. For example, because changes in cognitive functioning co-occur with other dramatic changes in (motoric) response capacities, it is unclear how one can effec­ tively study changes in the ability to cognize independent of changes in the very mechanisms (ability to execute motor sequences) so often used to index cognitive performance.

• Entwicklungspsychologie
• Gedächtnis
• Psychologie
• Verhalten
• behavior
• memory

• Department of Psychology, Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada

  Mark L. Howe, Michael J. Stones

• Division of Community Medicine and Behavioral Science, Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada

  Mark L. Howe

• Gerontology Center, Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada

  Michael J. Stones

• Program in Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

  Charles J. Brainerd

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