The concept of reserve has been proposed to account for the disjunction between the
degree of brain damage and its clinical outcome. This paper attempts to produce a coherent …

A theory is proposed to account for some of the age-related differences reported in
measures of Type A or fluid cognition. The central hypothesis in the theory is that increased …

Although sensitive detection of pathological cognitive aging requires accurate information
about the trajectory of normal cognitive aging, prior research has revealed inconsistent …

Aging has been assumed to go along with deficient inhibitory processes in cognitive
performance. According to this inhibition deficit hypothesis, older adults are less able to …

There are declines with age in speed of processing, working memory, inhibitory function,
and long-term memory, as well as decreases in brain structure size and white matter …

A study was conducted in which 133 participants performed 11 memory tasks (some thought
to reflect working memory and some thought to reflect short-term memory), 2 tests of general …

Drawing on both evolutionary and ontogenetic perspectives, the basic biological–genetic
and social–cultural architecture of human development is outlined. Three principles are …

Counter to the common belief that expert performance reflects innate abilities and
capacities, recent research in different domains of expertise has shown that expert …

Life-span developmental psychology deais with the study of individual development
(ontogenesis) from conception into old age (P. Baltes & Goulet, 1970; P. Baltes & Reese …

The recent availability of longitudinal data on the possible association of different lifestyles
with dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD) allow some preliminary conclusions on this …