Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging
Fully updated and revised, Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging, 2nd Edition provides an accessible introduction to aging and the brain. Now with full color throughout, it includes over fifty figures illustrating key research findings and anatomical diagrams. Adopting an integrative perspective across domains of psychological function, this edition features expanded coverage of multivariate methods, moral judgments, cognitive reserve, prospective memory, event boundaries, and individual differences related to aging, including sex, race, and culture. Although many declines occur with age, cognitive neuroscience research reveals plasticity and adaptation in the brain as a normal function of aging. With this perspective in mind, the book emphasizes the ways in which neuroscience methods have enriched and changed thinking about aging.
- Incorporates cognitive neuroscience with socioemotional and brain health perspectives
- Over 50 full-color figures illustrate key research findings and situate the reader in 'brain space,' rendering literature about the brain accessible
- Each chapter features real-world examples, chapter summaries, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and key terms
Product details
April 2025Paperback
9781009354226
342 pages
228 × 151 × 17 mm
0.55kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction to Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging
- 2. Brain Mechanisms of Aging
- 3. Cognition and Aging
- 4. Memory and Aging
- 5. Emotion, Decision Making, and Aging
- 6. Social Cognition and Aging
- 7. Alzheimer's Disease and Other Disorders with Age
- 8. Current and Future Directions.