Plasticity, variability and age in second language acquisition and bilingualism

D Birdsong - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Much of what is known about the outcome of second language acquisition and bilingualism
can be summarized in terms of inter-individual variability, plasticity and age. The present …

Aging and motivated cognition: The positivity effect in attention and memory

M Mather, LL Carstensen - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2005 - cell.com
As people get older, they experience fewer negative emotions. Strategic processes in older
adults' emotional attention and memory might play a role in this variation with age. Older …

[图书][B] Human motor development: A lifespan approach

VG Payne, LD Isaacs - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This book provides an overview of human development and includes the relationship
between motor development and cognitive and social development. It explores factors …

Que PASA? The posterior–anterior shift in aging

SW Davis, NA Dennis, SM Daselaar, MS Fleck… - Cerebral …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
A consistent finding from functional neuroimaging studies of cognitive aging is an age-
related reduction in occipital activity coupled with increased frontal activity. This posterior …

Changes in cognitive function in human aging

EL Glisky - Brain aging, 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter outlines the changes in cognition that occur in normal human aging, in an effort
to provide a backdrop against which neural changes can be interpreted. It highlights the …

Aging and emotional memory: the forgettable nature of negative images for older adults.

ST Charles, M Mather… - Journal of Experimental …, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
Two studies examined age differences in recall and recognition memory for positive,
negative, and neutral stimuli. In Study 1, younger, middle-aged, and older adults were …

[图书][B] The handbook of aging and cognition

FIM Craik, TA Salthouse - 2011 - books.google.com
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 …

Does retirement affect cognitive functioning?

E Bonsang, S Adam, S Perelman - Journal of health economics, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper analyses the effect of retirement on cognitive functioning using a longitudinal
survey among older Americans, which allows controlling for individual heterogeneity and …

Stability, growth, and decline in adult life span development of declarative memory: cross-sectional and longitudinal data from a population-based study.

M Rönnlund, L Nyberg, L Bäckman… - Psychology and …, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
Five-year changes in episodic and semantic memory were examined in a sample of 829
participants (35-80 years). A cohort-matched sample (N= 967) was assessed to control for …

Executive function across the life span

PD Zelazo, FIM Craik, L Booth - Acta psychologica, 2004 - Elsevier
The development and determinants of executive function (EF) were studied in children
(mean age= 8.8 years), young adults (M= 22.3 years), and elderly adults (M= 71.1 years). EF …