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Two major themes provide coherence among the chapters in this volume: (1) emphasis on either cognition or motor behavior and (2) a focus on atypical or abnormal rather than typical or normal aging. The discussion in this chapter therefore concentrates on these two topics; no attempt is made to review or summarize the major points raised in the previous chapters, but instead these topics are elaborated by exploring possible linkages across areas and by considering several implications of the focus on atypical aging.
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Salthouse, T.A. (1990). Cognition, Motor Behavior, and the Assessment of Atypical Aging. In: Howe, M.L., Stones, M.J., Brainerd, C.J. (eds) Cognitive and Behavioral Performance Factors in Atypical Aging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8947-7_7
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