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Social and Motivational Compensatory Mechanisms for Age-Related Cognitive Decline (Hardcover, New)
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Social and Motivational Compensatory Mechanisms for Age-Related Cognitive Decline (Hardcover, New)
Series: Special Issues of Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition
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Although many aspects of fluid cognition decline with advancing
age, simple observation in the wild suggests that older adults,
generally speaking, do very well in their day-to-day life. The
study of the orchestration of cognitive, social, and motivational
compensatory mechanisms in the service of effective and healthy
aging provides a meaningful challenge to traditional ways of
examining developmental changes in cognitive performance. An
additional impetus comes from recent discoveries in the
neuroscience of aging, all demonstrating substantial amounts of
functional modifiability, compensation, and plasticity of the human
brain, even in very old age. Furthermore, the discovery of string
relationships between engagement in mentally enriching and socially
stimulating activities and cognitive health and longevity has
sparked a new generation of training studies aimed at improving or
sustaining cognitive fitness in old age. 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. This ensemble of
studies compellingly shows that older adults' everyday cognitive
life is governed not by the decline in elementary cognitive
processes as measured in the lab, but by a multitude of
compensatory mechanisms, most of which are of the
social/motivational variety. Much of this compensatory behavior can
be elicited with no or only little experimental prodding,
underscoring the self-organizing or self-initiated nature of this
type of behavior, even in advanced old age. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Aging, Neuropsychology
and Cognition.
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