The Handbook of Aging and Cognition (2 ed)

Cognitive ageing is a flourishing area of research.

A significant amount of new data, a number of new theoretical notions, and even some new research topics have generated in the past ten years.

This second edition reviews recent findings and theories, enables the reader to assess where the field is today, and evaluates its points of growth.

The chapters are organized to run roughly from a consideration of the neural correlates of age-related changes in cognition, through the mainstream topics of perception, attention, memory and language, to more applied areas and to reviews of cognitive changes in the contexts of emotion, motivation and personality.

This edition has an even broader scope than the first, running as it does from structural changes in the brain to a consideration of changes in the self concept and in social cognition.