Importance Epidemiologic research on the possible link between age-related hearing loss
(ARHL) and cognitive decline and dementia has produced inconsistent results. Clarifying …

Many cognitive abilities decline with age even in the absence of detectable pathology.
Recent evidence indicates that age-related neural dedifferentiation, operationalized in terms …

Healthy aging has been associated with decreased specialization in brain function. This
characterization has focused largely on describing age-accompanied differences in …

Healthy aging (HA) is associated with certain declines in cognitive functions, even in
individuals that are free of any process of degenerative illness. Functional magnetic …

The availability of neuroimaging technology has spurred a marked increase in the human
cognitive neuroscience literature, including the study of cognitive ageing. Although there is a …

Age-related cognitive changes often include difficulties in retrieving memories, particularly
those that rely on personal experiences within their temporal and spatial contexts (ie …

The concept of reserve has been proposed to account for the disjunction between the
degree of brain damage and its clinical outcome. This paper attempts to produce a coherent …

Does plasticity contribute to adult cognitive development, and if so, in what ways? The
vague and overused concept of plasticity makes these controversial questions difficult to …

Recent behavioral data have shown that lifelong bilingualism can maintain youthful
cognitive control abilities in aging. Here, we provide the first direct evidence of a neural …

A model of the effects of aging on brain activity during cognitive performance is introduced.
The model is called HAROLD (hemispheric asymmetry reduction in older adults), and it …