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Informationen zum Autor Paul Verhaeghen is Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.Mike Martin is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.Grzegorz Sedek isProfessor and Director of ICACS (Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Cognitive Studies) at the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland. Zusammenfassung This book examines the role of compensatory mechanisms in such diverse facets of cognitive processing as perceptual processes, text comprehension, dual-task processing, and episodic and prospective memory. It was originally published as a special issue of Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Reconnecting cognition in the lab and cognition in real life: The role of compensatory social and motivational factors in explaining how cognition ages in the wild 2. Mood, motivation, and misinformation: Aging and affective state influences on memory 3. Positive effects of subclinical depression in prospective memory and ongoing tasks in young and old adults 4. The age prospective memory paradox within the same sample in time-based and event-based tasks 5. Age benefits in everyday prospective memory: The influence of personal task importance, use of reminders and everyday stress 6. Bingo! Externally-supported performance intervention for deficient visual search in normal aging, Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease 7. The Effects of print exposure on sentence processing and memory in older adults: Evidence for efficiency and reserve 8. Successful adaptation of gait in healthy older adults during dual-task treadmill walking 9. Plasticity of prospective memory through a familiarization intervention in old adults 10. Brain training in older adults: Evidence of transfer to memory span performance and pseudo-Matthew effects 11. Age and practice-related influences on dual-task costs and compensation mechanisms under optimal conditions of dual-task performance 12. Cognitive function, physical activity and aging: Possible biological links and implications for multimodal interventions 13. Aging and perceived event structure as a function of modality 14. The relationship between need for closure and memory for schema-related information among younger and older adults 15. Age-related schema reliance of judgments of learning in predicting source memory 16. Semantic encoding enhances the pictorial superiority effect in the oldest-old ...
