Education and cognitive functioning across the life span

M Lövdén, L Fratiglioni, MM Glymour… - … science in the …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Cognitive abilities are important predictors of educational and occupational performance,
socioeconomic attainment, health, and longevity. Declines in cognitive abilities are linked to …

Maintenance, reserve and compensation: the cognitive neuroscience of healthy ageing

R Cabeza, M Albert, S Belleville, FIM Craik… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Cognitive ageing research examines the cognitive abilities that are preserved and/or those
that decline with advanced age. There is great individual variability in cognitive ageing …

Cognitive structure, flexibility, and plasticity in human multitasking—An integrative review of dual-task and task-switching research.

I Koch, E Poljac, H Müller, A Kiesel - Psychological bulletin, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Numerous studies showed decreased performance in situations that require multiple tasks
or actions relative to appropriate control conditions. Because humans often engage in such …

Working memory training does not improve performance on measures of intelligence or other measures of “far transfer” evidence from a meta-analytic review

M Melby-Lervåg, TS Redick… - Perspectives on …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
It has been claimed that working memory training programs produce diverse beneficial
effects. This article presents a meta-analysis of working memory training studies (with a …

[BUKU][B] The transformative mind: Expanding Vygotsky's approach to development and education

A Stetsenko - 2017 - books.google.com
Cover--Half-title--Title page--Copyright information--Epigraph--Table of contents--
Acknowledgments--Introduction: Setting the Stage. The Paradox of Continuity versus …

Brain reserve, cognitive reserve, compensation, and maintenance: operationalization, validity, and mechanisms of cognitive resilience

Y Stern, CA Barnes, C Grady, RN Jones, N Raz - Neurobiology of aging, 2019 - Elsevier
Significant individual differences in the trajectories of cognitive aging and in age-related
changes of brain structure and function have been reported in the past half-century. In some …

How does it STAC up? Revisiting the scaffolding theory of aging and cognition

PA Reuter-Lorenz, DC Park - Neuropsychology review, 2014 - Springer
Abstract “The Scaffolding Theory of Aging and Cognition (STAC)”, proposed in 2009, is a
conceptual model of cognitive aging that integrated evidence from structural and functional …

Working memory training revisited: A multi-level meta-analysis of n-back training studies

A Soveri, J Antfolk, L Karlsson, B Salo… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2017 - Springer
The efficacy of working memory (WM) training has been a controversial and hotly debated
issue during the past years. Despite a large number of training studies and several meta …

Efficiency, capacity, compensation, maintenance, plasticity: emerging concepts in cognitive reserve

D Barulli, Y Stern - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2013 - cell.com
Cognitive reserve (CR) is a concept meant to account for the frequent discrepancy between
an individual's measured level of brain pathology and her expected cognitive performance. It …

Successful memory aging

L Nyberg, S Pudas - Annual review of psychology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
For more than 50 years, psychologists, gerontologists, and, more recently, neuroscientists
have considered the possibility of successful aging. How to define successful aging remains …