The prospect of enhancing cognition through behavioural training interventions, for
example, the repetitive practice of cognitive tasks or metacognitive strategy instruction, has …

Objectives This review examined the evidence about training interventions targeting
metacognition in improving memory and cognitive performance, metacognitive functioning …

Among all aspects of the linguistic and communicative competence, pragmatics seems
especially vulnerable in aging, due also to cognitive decline. However, pragmatics has …

Affordable and easy-to-administer interventions such as cognitive training, cognitively
stimulating everyday leisure activities, and non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, are …

Background Research on aging has shown a significant decline in ToM after 65 years of
age. Despite these age-related difficulties, no study has yet investigated the possibility to …

Theory of Mind (ToM) refers to the ability to attribute independent mental states to self and
others in order to explain and predict social behavior. Recent research in this area has …

Many older people experience everyday memory complaints which can be a precursor
condition to mild cognitive impairment and dementia. Research has consistently shown that …

Traditional memory strategy training interventions improve older adults' performance on
tests of episodic memory, but have limited transfer to episodic memory tasks, let alone to …

This chapter reviews age differences in metacognitive control, defined as behaviors based
on the monitoring of cognitive systems and states with the goal of improving the quality of …

Background Cognitive flexibility has repeatedly been shown to improve after training
programs in community‐dwelling older adults, but few studies have focused on healthy older …