Individual Differences in Cognitive Aging

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 242-267

  Tucker Drob, Elliot M ^a   Salthouse, Timothy A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

"use it or lose it" hypothesis, mental exercise hypothesis those maintaining a mentally engaged and mentally active lifestyle, showing less cognitive decline; Cognitive reserve hypothesis, that those experiencing enriched socioeconomic environments in childhood being more resilient cognitive and or neurobiological architectures, protected against aging related cognitive deficits; Continuous distribution of individual differences in cognitive aging, across normal healthy adults; Cross sectional age trends from Virginia Cognitive Aging Project at University of Virginia, VCAP; Dementias, and related disorders identified using cognitive tests, real world functioning, being deemed to be impaired; Individual differences in cognitive aging; Individual differences in cognitive aging basic population, level phenomenon in question; Localizing cross sectional aging related differences in hierarchical structure; Multidimensional possibility operation of a heterogeneous variety of causes of cognitive aging; Shared influence approaches from two observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881526458     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343120.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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