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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.
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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Omega Minor (Paperback)
Paul Verhaeghen
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Berlin, Spring of 1995. While a group of neo-Nazis are preparing an
anniversary bash of disastrous proportions, an old physics
professor returns to Potsdam to atone for his sins, an Italian
postdoc designs an experiment that will determine the fate of the
universe, and, in a room at Le Charit?, a Holocaust survivor tells
his tale to the willing ear of a young psychologist. Who is that
talking cat, why do ghosts of SS soldiers roam the city, and what
is Speer's favorite actress up to?
Mindfulness and one of the roads to it, meditation, have become
increasingly popular as a way to promote health and well-being.
Meditation can create mindfulness in daily life, which becomes an
ingrained habit if applied consistently-it can boost immune
function; lower levels of stress, anxiety, or depression; lift
affect; regulate emotion more easily; and make you happier.
Presence reviews how meditation calms the body and what goes on
inside the brain during meditation-how it impacts control over
attention, awareness of the body, and the experience of self. It
examines how meditation leaves telltale lasting traces in brain
structure, and how it impacts important areas of life such as
well-being, stress, and health. In addition, it examines how
mindfulness can be useful as therapy, alleviating depression,
anxiety, worry, and pain. A final chapter provides advice on how to
meditate and practice mindfulness in a scientifically sound way,
based on what we know about how meditation works. Over the last
decade, research on these beneficial effects has boomed in the
cognitive and behavioral psychology and neuroscience literature,
and Presence provides an overview of this research that is thorough
and accessible for the curious meditator, seasoned or beginner, as
well as for students and practitioners of contemplative science and
related fields.
Over the last decade, the field of socio-emotional development and
aging has rapidly expanded, with many new theories and empirical
findings emerging. This trend is consistent with the broader
movement in psychology to consider social, motivational, and
emotional influences on cognition and behavior. The Oxford Handbook
of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood
provides the first overview of a new field of adult development
that has emerged out of conceptualizations and research at the
intersections between socioemotional development, social cognition,
emotion, coping, and everyday problem solving. This field roundly
rejects a universal deficit model of aging, highlighting instead
the dynamic nature of socio-emotional development and the
differentiation of individual trajectories of development as a
function of variation in contextual and experiential influences. It
emphasizes the need for a cross-level examination (from biology and
neuroscience to cognitive and social psychology) of the
determinants of emotional and socio-emotional behavior. This volume
also serves as a tribute to the late Fredda Blanchard-Fields, whose
thinking and empirical research contributed extensively to a
life-span developmental view of emotion, problem solving, and
social cognition. Its chapters cover multiple aspects of adulthood
and aging, presenting developmental perspectives on emotion;
antecedents and consequences of emotion in context; everyday
problem solving; social cognition; goals and goal-related
behaviors; and wisdom. The landmark volume in this new field, The
Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving
in Adulthood is an important resource for cognitive, developmental,
and social psychologists, as well as researchers and graduate
students in the field of aging, emotion studies, and social
psychology.
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