Executive functions demonstrate variable developmental and aging profiles, with protracted
development into early adulthood and declines in older age. However, relatively few studies …

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number
of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues have been generated in the past …

Research on cognitive aging seems to have three primary goals: first, to determine the
extent to which the diversity of observed behavioral changes that occur with advancing age …

Research has shown that age-related changes in cognitive performance are due mostly to
the decline of general factors such as working memory and inhibition. The present study is …

Older individuals often find it difficult to communicate, especially in group situations,
because they are unable to keep up with the flow of conversation or are too slow in …

Cases of language loss and recovery bring up an intriguing paradox. If two languages are
stored in the brain, how can it be that a person can lose one of them, but not the other, and …

Previous studies have found that differences in brain volume among older adults predict
performance in laboratory tasks of executive control, memory, and motor learning. In the …

Aging is associated with reduced resources needed to perform difficult cognitive tasks, but
the neural underpinnings are not well understood, especially as there is scant evidence …

Background Executive functioning (EF) is an important concept in cognitive psychology that
has rarely been studied in people with intellectual disabilities (IDs). The aim of this study …

This study investigates the effect of aging on alerting, orienting, and conflict resolution by
assessing younger (mean age= 25.8) and older (mean age= 67.9) adults' performance in …