Intact cognitive function is a critical dimension of quality of life. Cognitive difficulties can be
disruptive to individuals' sense of well-being and to their everyday functioning. Age-related …

The main focus of this study was to examine age-related changes in self-evaluation of
cognitive functioning in the domains of memory, attention, mental speed, planning, and …

The association between distress proneness and cognitive decline was examined in older
residents of a biracial community in Chicago. At baseline, participants completed four …

Objective The extent to which increasing age is associated with impairment in cognitive
function, termed cognitive aging, may have been overestimated in prior studies. The …

Perceptions of aging have been shown to impact the psychological and physical health of
older adults. Experimental studies have found that priming older adults with negative …

Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM) were used to
study the organization of executive functions in older adults. The four primary goals were to …

I t is helpful to begin this chapter by documenting the phenomena in need of explanation by
theories of aging and cognition. An effort of this type is desirable because one cannot hope …

Au cours de la dernière décennie, la recherche sur le vieillissement cognitif a produit
plusieurs études controversées et déterminantes qui mettaient en relief la forte corrélation …

The question of whether and how subjective cognitive complaints are related to actual
cognitive performance represents a central issue in applied cognitive aging research. Until …

A great deal has been learned in recent years about age-related cognitive performance and
underlying processes, much of it through laboratory and clinical research. More recently …