Psychology of Ageing, (4 Volume Set)

Cognitive and biological ageing has become a fast-growing and dynamic area of study and research, and the scale of this acceleration in growth makes this new four-volume collection in the Psychology Press Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Psychology, especially timely.

A primary question is why we and all other complex animals and plants age, a question studied mainly by biologists, and Volume I (‘Biological Bases of Ageing’) includes key research on models for ethological and evolutionary ageing. It also takes full account of the body of work on the genetics of animal and human ageing and on genes that directly cause, or that interact with environmental influences to cause, individual differences in the rate of age-related changes.

A quite distinct field of research has been the development of models for cognitive changes in the brain that are based entirely on behavioural evidence. Volume II (‘Cognitive Ageing’) gathers together the most important work on the search for the neuropsychological bases of cognitive ageing and in so doing helps to make sense of the rapid growth of developments in this area.

The third volume in this collection (‘Relating Cognitive Ageing to Brain Ageing’) makes available the most significant recent research on how the amounts and time-courses of gross age-related changes in local areas of the brain affect cotemporaneous global and local changes in cognitive performance.

Finally, the material collected in Volume IV (‘The Effects of Health, Demographics and Social Conditions on Rates of Change in Old Age: Interpreting Data from Large Studies’) examines how the methodology of longitudinal studies and cross-sectional studies affects the conclusions that can be reached from each and explores recent statistical models to analyse complex data sets.

With comprehensive introductions to each volume, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in historical and scientific context, Psychology of Ageing is destined to be a vital work of reference. It will also be valued by scholars, students, and practitioners as a primary research resource.

Volume I : Biological Bases of Ageing

Chapter 1 : The Strong Connection Between Sensory and Cognitive Performance in Old Age : Not Due to Sensory Acuity Reductions Operating During Cognitive Assessment’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 2 : A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of Late-Life Sensory and Cognitive Function Over 8 Years : Evidence for Specific and Common Factors Underlying Change’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 3 : Hearing Loss in Older Adulthood : What it is and How it Interacts with Cognitive Performance’, Current Directions in Psychological Science
Chapter 4 : Balance Marks Cognitive Changes in Old Age Because it Reflects Global Brain Atrophy and Cerebro-Arterial Blood-Flow’, Neuropsychologia
Chapter 5 : Mild Hearing Impairment Can Reduce Verbal Memory Performance in a Healthy Adult Population’, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
Chapter 6 : Biological Age in Adulthood : Comparison of Active and Inactive US Males’, Human Biology
Chapter 7 : Rigorous Health Screening Reduces Age Effects on a Memory Scanning Task’, Brain and Cognition
Chapter 8 : Distractibility, Circadian Arousal, and Aging : A Boundary Condition?’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 9 : Profile of Disability in Elderly People : Estimates from a Longitudinal Population Study’, British Medical Journal
Chapter 10 : The Relation Between Morbidity and Cognitive Performance in a Normal Aging Population’, Journal of Gerontology : Medical Sciences
Chapter 11 : The "Common Cause HypoThesis" of Cognitive Aging : Evidence for Not Only a Common Factor But Also for Specific Associations of Age with Vision and Grip Strength in a Cross-Sectional Analysis’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 12 : Visual Perception and Aging’, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
Chapter 13 : Evolution of Ageing’, Mechanisms of Ageing and Development
Chapter 14 : The Genetics of Aging’, Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
Chapter 15 : Exercise, Cognition, and The Aging Brain’, Journal of Applied Physiology
Chapter 16 : The Loss of Skeletal Muscle Strength, Mass, and Quality in Older Adults : The Health, Aging and Body Composition Study’, Journal of Gerontology : Medical Sciences
Chapter 17 : The Complex Nature of Unique and Shared Effects in Hierarchical Linear Regression : Implications for Developmental Psychology’, Psychological Methods
Chapter 18 : The Association Between Health and Cognitive Performance in a Population-Based Study of Older Adults : The Charlotte County Healthy Aging Study (CCHAS)’, Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition
Chapter 19 : An Application of Prefrontal Cortex Function Theory to Cognitive Aging’, Psychological Bulletin
Chapter 20 : Effects of Time of Day on Age Differences in Working Memory’, Journal of Gerontology : Psychological Sciences

Volume II : Cognitive Ageing

Chapter 21 : Variability in Reaction Time Performance of Younger and Older Adults’, Journal of Gerontology : Psychological Sciences
Chapter 22 : Adult Age Differences in Task Switching’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 23 : Meta-Analyses of Age-Cognition Relations in Adulthood : Estimates of Linear and Nonlinear Age Effects and Structural Models’, Psychological Bulletin
Chapter 24 : Everything we Know about Aging and Response Times : A Meta-Analytic Integration, The Handbook of Cognitive Aging : Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Chapter 25 : Aging, Executive Control, and Attention : A Review of Meta-Analyses’, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Chapter 26 : What Can Brinley Plots Tell Us About Cognitive Aging?’, Journal of Gerontology : Psychological Sciences
Chapter 27 : Information Processing Rates in The Elderly’, Psychological Bulletin
Chapter 28 : Age and Inhibition’, Journal of Experimental Psychology : Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Chapter 29 : Age Deficits in The Control of Prepotent Responses : Evidence for an Inhibitory Decline’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 30 : The Costs of Doing Two Things at Once for Young and Older Adults : Talking While Walking, Finger Tapping, and Ignoring Speech or Noise’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 31 : The Processing-Speed Theory of Adult Age Differences in Cognition’, Psychological Review
Chapter 32 : Analysis of Group Differences in Processing Speed : Brinley Plots, Q-Q Plots, and OTher Conspiracies’, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Chapter 33 : Explicitly Modeling The Effects of Aging on Response Time’, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Chapter 34 : Brinley Plots and Theories of Aging : The Explicit, Muddled, and Implicit Debates’, Journal of Gerontology : Psychological Sciences
Chapter 35 : General Slowing or Decreased Inhibition? MaThematical Models of Age Differences in Cognitive Functioning’, Journal of Gerontology : Psychological Sciences
Chapter 36 : Levels of Selective Attention Revealed Through Analyses of Response Time Distributions’, Journal of Experimental Psychology : Human Perception and Performance
Chapter 37 : The Effects of Age and Task Domain on Dual Task Performance : A Meta-Analysis’, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 38 : Effects of Global Atrophy, White Matter Lesions, and Cerebral Blood Flow on Age-Related Changes in Speed, Memory, Intelligence, Vocabulary, and Frontal Function’, Neuropsychology
Chapter 39 : Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Relationships Among Age, Cognition, and Processing Speed’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 40 : Cognitive Performance Inconsistency : Intraindividual Change and Variability’, Psychology and Aging

Volume III : Relating Cognitive Ageing to Brain Ageing

Chapter 41 : Changes in Memory Processing with Age’, Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Chapter 42 : Aging and Cognitive Deficits : The Role of Attentional Resources’, Aging & Cognitive Processes
Chapter 43 : Age Differences in Memory for Item and Source Information’, Canadian Journal of Psychology
Chapter 44 : The Structure of Verbal Abilities in Young and Older Adults’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 45 : Flashbulb Memories in Older Adults’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 46 : What Underlies The Deficit in Reported Recollective Experience in Old Age?’, Memory & Cognition
Chapter 47 : Studies of Directed Forgetting in Older Adults’, Journal of Experimental Psychology : Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Chapter 48 : Aging and Skilled Problem-Solving’, Journal of Experimental Psychology : General
Chapter 49 : Word-Processing Training and Retraining : Effects of Adult Age, Experience, and Interface’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 50 : Building Episodic Connections : Changes in Episodic Priming with Age and Dementia’, Neuropsychology
Chapter 51 : The Theory of Fluid and Crystallised Intelligence in Relation to Concepts of Cognitive Psychology and Aging in Adulthood, Aging and Cognition Processes
Chapter 52 : Levels of Processing : A Framework for Memory Research’, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
Chapter 53 : Prospective Memory : Multiple Retrieval Processes’, Current Directions in Psychological Science
Chapter 54 : Implicit and Explicit Memory in Young and Older Adults’, Journal of Experimental Psychology : Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Chapter 55 : Age Differences in Implicit Memory : Conceptual, Perceptual, or Methodological?’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 56 : Aging and Maintaining Intentions Over Delays : Do it or Lose it’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 57 : Emotionally Charged Autobiographical Memories Across The Life Span : The Recall of Happy, Sad, Traumatic, and Involuntary Memories’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 58 : Cultural Life Scripts Structure Recall from Autobiographical Memory’, Memory & Cognition
Chapter 59 : Source Memory in Older Adults : An Encoding or Retrieval Problem?’, Journal of Experimental Psychology : Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Volume IV : The Effects of Health, Demographics, and Social Conditions on Rates of Change in Old Age : Interpreting Data from Large Studies

Chapter 60 : The Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Cognitive Decline in Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons’, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Chapter 61 : Cognition in The Berlin Aging Study (BASE) : The First 10 Years’, Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition
Chapter 62 : Stability of The Preclinical Episodic Memory Deficit in Alzheimer’s Disease’, Brain
Chapter 63 : Longitudinal Models of Growth and Survival Applied to The Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease’, Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology
Chapter 64 : Apolipoprotein E and Cognitive Performance : A Meta-Analysis’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 65 : Longitudinal Course and Neuropathologic Outcomes in Original versus Revised MCI and in Pre-MCI’, Neurology
Chapter 66 : Perceptual Speed in Adulthood : Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 67 : An Historical Framework for Cohort Differences in Intelligence’, Research in Human Development
Chapter 68 : Assessing Psychological Change in Adulthood : An Overview of Methodological Issues’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 69 : The University of Manchester Longitudinal Study of Cognition in Normal Healthy Old Age, 1983 through 2003’, Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition
Chapter 70 : On Sequential Strategies in Developmental Research : Description or Explanation’, Human Development
Chapter 71 : Terminal Decline and Cognitive Performance in Very Old Age : Does Cause of Death Matter?’, Psychology and Aging
Chapter 72 : Comparing Personal Trajectories and Drawing Causal Inferences from Longitudinal Data’, Annual Review of Psychology
Chapter 73 : Regional Brain Changes in Aging Healthy Adults : General Trends, Individual Differences and Modifiers’, Cerebral Cortex
Chapter 74 : Hypertension and The Brain : Vulnerability of The Prefrontal Regions and Executive Functions’, Behavioral Neuroscience
Chapter 75 : Shrinkage of The Entorhinal Cortex Over Five Years Predicts Memory Performance in Healthy Adults’, The Journal of Neuroscience
Chapter 76 : Adult Age Differences in The Functional Neuroanatomy of Verbal Recognition Memory’, Human Brain Mapping
Chapter 77 : Functional Brain Imaging and Age-Related Changes in Cognition’, Biological Psychology