Cognition arises as a result of coordinated processing among distributed brain regions and
disruptions to communication within these neural networks can result in cognitive …

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 …

Linear mixed-effect models (LMMs) are being increasingly widely used in psychology to
analyse multi-level research designs. This feature allows LMMs to address some of the …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the theoretical and empirical literature that
addresses aging and discourse comprehension. A series of five studies guided by a …

This book provides an overview of human development and includes the relationship
between motor development and cognitive and social development. It explores factors …

The present article reviews theories of memory and aging over the past 50 years.
Particularly notable is a progression from early single-mechanism perspectives to complex …

Social interaction patterns, social preferences, and social choices are of central interest to
psychologists. Yet the developmental course of social behavior within a life-span context …

Many variables have been assumed to reflect speed of processing, and most are strongly
related to age in the period of adulthood. One of the primary theoretical questions with …

Throughout the lifespan, there are pronounced age differences in speed of processing,
differences that are consistently related to performance on measures of higher-order …

A meta-analysis was conducted on 91 studies to derive a correlation matrix for adult age,
speed of processing, primary–working memory, episodic memory, reasoning, and spatial …