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Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging

Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging

Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging

2nd Edition
Angela Gutchess, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
April 2025
Available
Paperback
9781009354226

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    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 2025
    Paperback
    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.
      Author
    • Angela Gutchess , Brandeis University, Massachusetts

      Angela Gutchess is a Professor of Psychology at Brandeis University with appointments in Neuroscience and the Volen Center for Complex Systems. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan and her B.A./B.S. from Boston University. Her research investigates the influence of age and culture on memory and social cognition, using behavioral, neuroimaging (fMRI), electrophysiological (ERP), and patient (aMCI) methods. She has authored over one hundred peer-reviewed papers on these topics, and co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging: A Life Course Perspective with Ayanna Thomas. Her research has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Science Foundation, the Alzheimer's Association, and the American Federation for Aging Research. As a Fulbright Scholar, she had the opportunity to spend a research semester in Istanbul, Turkey, at Boğaziçi University. Dr. Gutchess was elected to the Memory Disorders Research Society and the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society, serving as Chair in 2023.