Lifespan Cognition Mechanisms of Change [Hardcover]

This volume creates a bridge across cognitive development and cognitive aging. Pairs of researchers study the rise and fall of specific cognitive functions, such as attention, executive functioning, memory, working memory, representations, language, problem solving, intelligence, and individual differences to find ways in which the study of development and decline converge on common processes and mechanisms. The contributed chapters are framed by an introduction that sets out the problems to be discussed and a conclusion that extracts the common themes and speculates on the implications for theory building. The book is unique in offering a lifespan approach to cognition by experts in the individual facts of cognitive functioning from either the developmental or the aging perspective.

1. Introduction,Fergus I.M. Craik & Ellen Bialystock
2. Neural Bases of Cognitive Development,Margot J. Taylor
3. Brain Changes in Aging: A Lifespan Perspective,Randy Buckner, Denise Head, & Cindy Lustig
4. Four Modes of Selection,Jim Enns & Lana Trick
5. Aging and Attention,Art Kramer & Jutta Kray
6. The Early Development of Executive Functions,Adele Diamond
7. The aging of executive functions,Karen Daniels, Jeffrey Toth, & Larry Jacoby
8. Working Memory in Children: A Cognitive Approach,Graham J. Hitch
9. Working Memory across the Adult Lifespan,Denise C. Park & Doris Payer
10. Children's Memory Development: Remembering the Past and Preparing for the Future,Peter A. Ornstein, Catherine A. Haden, & Holger B. Elischberger
11. Aging and Long-Term Memory: Deficits Are Not Inevitable,Rose T. Zacks & Lynn Hasher
12. Development of Representation in Childhood,Katherine Nelson
13. Representation and Aging,Deborah M. Burke
14. The Emergentist Coalition Model of Word Learning in Children Has Implications for Language in Aging,Rló¦