Psychology of ageing : critical concepts in psychology / edited by Patrick Rabbitt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volume I. Biological Bases of Ageing -- 1. The Strong Connection Between Sensory and Cognitive Performance in Old Age: Not Due to Sensory Acuity Reductions Operating During Cognitive Assessment / Ulman Lindenberger, Hans Scherer, and Paul B. Baltes -- 2. A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of Late-Life Sensory and Cognitive Function Over 8 Years: Evidence for Specific and Common Factors Underlying Change / Kaarin J. Anstey, Scott M. Hofer, and Mary A. Luszcz -- 3. Hearing Loss in Older Adulthood: What it is and How it Interacts with Cognitive Performance / Arthur Wingfield, Patricia A. Tun, and Sandra L. McCoy -- 4. Balance Marks Cognitive Changes in Old Age Because it Reflects Global Brain Atrophy and Cerebro-Arterial Blood-Flow / P. M. Rabbitt ... [et al.] -- 5. Mild Hearing Impairment Can Reduce Verbal Memory Performance in a Healthy Adult Population / M. P. J. van Boxtel ... [et al.] -- 6. Biological Age in Adulthood: Comparison of Active and Inactive US Males / Gary A. Borkan and Arthur H. Norris -- 7. Rigorous Health Screening Reduces Age Effects on a Memory Scanning Task / Peter J. Houx, Fred W. Vreeling, and Jellemer Jolles -- 8. Distractibility, Circadian Arousal, and Aging: A Boundary Condition? / Karen Z. H. Li ... [et al.] -- 9. Profile of Disability in Elderly People: Estimates from a Longitudinal Population Study / David Melzer ... [et al.] -- 10. The Relation Between Morbidity and Cognitive Performance in a Normal Aging Population / Martin P. J. van Boxtel ... [et al.] -- 11. The “Common Cause Hypothesis” of Cognitive Aging: Evidence for Not Only a Common Factor But Also for Specific Associations of Age with Vision and Grip Strength in a Cross-Sectional Analysis / Helen Christensen ... [et al.] -- 12. Visual Perception and Aging / Jocelyn Faubert -- 13. Evolution of Ageing / Thomas B. L. Kirkwood -- 14. The Genetics of Aging / Caleb E. Finch and Gary Ruvkun -- 15. Exercise, Cognition, and the Aging Brain / Arthur F. Kramer, Kirk I. Erickson, and Stanley J. Colcombe -- 16. The Loss of Skeletal Muscle Strength, Mass, and Quality in Older Adults: The Health, Aging and Body Composition Study / Bret H. Goodpaster ... [et al.] -- 17. The Complex Nature of Unique and Shared Effects in Hierarchical Linear Regression: Implications for Developmental Psychology / Ulman Lindenberger and Ulrich Potter -- 19. An Application of Prefrontal Cortex Function Theory to Cognitive Aging / Robert L. West -- 20. Effects of Time of Day on Age Differences in Working Memory / Robert West ... [et al.] --

Volume II. Cognitive Ageing -- 21. Variability in Reaction Time Performance of Younger and Older Adults / David F. Hultsch, Stuart W. S. MacDonald, and Roger A. Dixon -- 22. Adult Age Differences in Task Switching / Jutta Kray and Ulman Lindenberger -- 23. Meta-Analyses of Age-Cognition Relations in Adulthood: Estimates of Linear and Nonlinear Age Effects and Structural Models / Paul Verhaeghen and Timothy A. Salthouse -- 24. Everything we Know about Aging and Response Times: A Meta-Analytic Integration / Paul Verhaeghen and John Cerella -- 25. Aging, Executive Control, and Attention: A Review of Meta-Analyses / Paul Verhaeghen and John Cerella -- 26. What Can Brinley Plots Tell Us About Cognitive Aging? / Timothy John Perfect -- 27. Information Processing Rates in the Elderly / John Cerella -- 28. Age and Inhibition / Lynn Hasher ... [et al.] -- 29. Age Deficits in the Control of Prepotent Responses: Evidence for an Inhibitory Decline / Karin M. Butler and Rose T. Zacks -- 30. The Costs of Doing Two Things at Once for Young and Older Adults: Talking While Walking,Finger Tapping, and Ignoring Speech or Noise / Susan Kemper, Ruth E. Herman, and Cindy H. T. Lian -- 31. The Processing-Speed Theory of Adult Age Differences in Cognition / Timothy A. Salthouse -- 32. Analysis of Group Differences in Processing Speed: Brinley Plots, Q-Q Plots, and Other Conspiracies / Joel Myerson ... [et al.] -- 33. Explicitly Modeling the Effects of Aging on Response Time / Roger Ratcliff, Daniel Spieler, and Gail McKoon -- 34. Brinley Plots and Theories of Aging: The Explicit, Muddled, and Implicit Debates / Arthur D. Fisk and Donald L. Fisher -- 35. General Slowing or Decreased Inhibition? Mathematical Models of Age Differences in Cognitive Functioning / Sy-Miin Chow and John R. Nesselroade -- 36. Levels of Selective Attention Revealed Through Analyses of Response Time Distributions / Daniel H. Spieler, David A. Balota, and Mark E. Faust -- 37. The Effects of Age and Task Domain on Dual Task Performance: A Meta-Analysis / Leigh M. Riby, Timothy J. Perfect, and Brian T. Stollery -- 38. Effects of Global Atrophy, White Matter Lesions, and Cerebral Blood Flow on Age-Related Changes in Speed, Memory, Intelligence, Vocabulary, and Frontal Function / Patrick Rabbitt ... [et al.] -- 39. Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Relationships Among Age, Cognition, and Processing Speed / Martin Sliwinski and Herman Buschke -- 40. Cognitive Performance Inconsistency: Intraindividual Change and Variability / Nilam Ram ... [et al.] --

Volume III. Relating Cognitive Ageing to Brain Ageing -- 41. Changes in Memory Processing with Age / Cheryl L. Grady and Fergus I. M. Craik -- 42. Aging and Cognitive Deficits: The Role of Attentional Resources / Fergus I. M. Craik and Mark Byrd -- 43. Age Differences in Memory for Item and Source Information / John S. McIntyre and Fergus I. M. Craik -- 44. The Structure of Verbal Abilities in Young and Older Adults / Susan Kemper and Aaron Sumner -- 45. Flashbulb Memories in Older Adults / Gillian Cohen, Martin A. Conway, and Elizabeth A. Maylor -- 46. What Underlies the Deficit in Reported Recollective Experience in Old Age? / Timothy J. Perfect and Zubeida R. R. Dasgupta -- 47. Studies of Directed Forgetting in Older Adults / Rose T. Zacks, Gabriel Radvansky, and Lynn Hasher -- 48. Aging and Skilled Problem-Solving / Neil Charness -- 49. Word-Processing Training and Retraining: Effects of Adult Age, Experience, and Interface / Neil Charness ... [et al.] -- 50. Building Episodic Connections: Changes in Episodic Priming with Age and Dementia / Mark E. Faust, David A. Balota, and Daniel H. Spieler -- 51. The Theory of Fluid and Crystallised Intelligence in Relation to Concepts of Cognitive Psychology and Aging in Adulthood / John L. Horn -- 52. Levels of Processing: A Framework for Memory Research / Fergus I. M. Craik and Robert S. Lockhart -- 53. Prospective Memory: Multiple Retrieval Processes / Gilles O. Einstein and Mark A. McDaniel -- 54. Implicit and Explicit Memory in Young and Older Adults / Leah L. Light and Asha Singh -- 55. Age Differences in Implicit Memory: Conceptual, Perceptual, or Methodological? / David B. Mitchell and Peter J. Bruss -- 56. Aging and Maintaining Intentions Over Delays: Do it or Lose it / Mark A. McDaniel ... [et al.] -- 57. Emotionally Charged Autobiographical Memories Across the Life Span: The Recall of Happy, Sad, Traumatic, and Involuntary Memories / Dorthe Berntsen and David C. Rubin -- 58. Cultural Life Scripts Structure Recall from Autobiographical Memory / Dorthe Berntsen and David C. Rubin -- 59. Source Memory in Older Adults: An Encoding or Retrieval Problem? / Elizabeth L. Glisky, Susan R. Rubin, and Patrick S. R. Davidson --

Volume IV. The Effects of Health, Demographics and Social Conditions on Rates of Change in Old Age: Interpreting Data from Large Studies -- 60. The Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Cognitive Decline in Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons / Hannie C. Comijs ... [et al.] -- 62. Stability of the Preclinical Episodic Memory Deficit in Alzheimer / Lars Backman, Brent J. Small, and Laura Fratiglioni -- 63. Longitudinal Models of Growth and Survival Applied to the Early Detection of Alzheimer / John J. McArdle ... [et al.] -- 64. Apolipoprotein E and Cognitive Performance: A Meta-Analysis / Brent J. Small ... [et al.] -- 65. Longitudinal Course and Neuropathologic Outcomes in Original versus Revised MCI and in Pre-MCI / Martha Storandt ... [et al.] -- 66. Perceptual Speed in Adulthood: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies / K. Warner Schaie -- 67. An Historical Framework for Cohort Differences in Intelligence / K. Warner Schaie, Sherry L. Willis, and Sara Pennak -- 68. Assessing Psychological Change in Adulthood: An Overview of Methodological Issues / Christopher Hertzog and John R. Nesselroade -- 69. The University of Manchester Longitudinal Study of Cognition in Normal Healthy Old Age, 1983 through 2003 / P. M. A. Rabbitt ... [et al.] -- 70. On Sequential Strategies in Developmental Research: Description or Explanation / K. Warner Schaie and Paul B. Baltes -- 71. Terminal Decline and Cognitive Performance in Very Old Age: Does Cause of Death Matter? / Brent J. Small ... [et al.] -- 72. Comparing Personal Trajectories and Drawing Causal Inferences from Longitudinal Data / Stephen W. Raudenbush -- 73. Regional Brain Changes in Aging Healthy Adults: General Trends, Individual Differences and Modifiers / Naftali Raz ... [et al.] -- 74. Hypertension and the Brain: Vulnerability of the Prefrontal Regions and Executive Functions / Naftali Raz, Karen M. Rodrigue, and James D. Acker -- 75. Shrinkage of the Entorhinal Cortex Over Five Years Predicts Memory Performance in Healthy Adults / Karen M. Rodrigue and Naftali Raz -- 76. Adult Age Differences in the Functional Neuroanatomy of Verbal Recognition Memory / David J. Madden ... [et al.] -- 77. Functional Brain Imaging and Age-Related Changes inCognition / Cheryl L. Grady.

"Cognitive and biological ageing has become a fast-growing and dynamic area of study and research, and the scale of this acceleration in growth makes this new four-volume collection in the Psychology Press Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Psychology, especially timely. A primary question is why we and all other complex animals and plants age, a question studied mainly by biologists, and Volume I ('Biological Bases of Ageing') includes key research on models for ethological and evolutionary ageing. It also takes full account of the body of work on the genetics of animal and human ageing and on genes that directly cause, or that interact with environmental influences to cause, individual differences in the rate of age-related changes. A quite distinct field of research has been the development of models for cognitive changes in the brain that are based entirely on behavioural evidence. Volume II ('Cognitive Ageing') gathers together the most important work on the search for the neuropsychological bases of cognitive ageing and in so doing helps to make sense of the rapid growth of developments in this area. The third volume in this collection ('Relating Cognitive Ageing to Brain Ageing') makes available the most significant recent research on how the amounts and time-courses of gross age-related changes in local areas of the brain affect cotemporaneous global and local changes in cognitive performance. Finally, the material collected in Volume IV ('The Effects of Health, Demographics and Social Conditions on Rates of Change in Old Age: Interpreting Data from Large Studies') examines how the methodology of longitudinal studies and cross-sectional studies affects the conclusions that can be reached from each and explores recent statistical models to analyse complex data sets."--Publisher's website.

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