Cognitive ageing research examines the cognitive abilities that are preserved and/or those
that decline with advanced age. There is great individual variability in cognitive ageing …

This second edition of the popular Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging provides up-to-date
coverage of the most fundamental topics in this discipline. Like the first edition, this volume …

There are declines with age in speed of processing, working memory, inhibitory function, and
long-term memory, as well as decreases in brain structure size and white matter integrity. …

“The Scaffolding Theory of Aging and Cognition (STAC)”, proposed in 2009, is a conceptual
model of cognitive aging that integrated evidence from structural and functional …

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

The present study investigated whether neural structures become less functionally differentiated
and specialized with age. We studied ventral visual cortex, an area of the brain that …

The pathophysiological process of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is thought to begin many years
before the diagnosis of AD dementia. This long “preclinical” phase of AD would provide a …

… Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Denise C. Park,
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 3042 East Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 …

Current theories of cognitive aging argue that neural representations become less distinctive
in old age, a phenomenon known as dedifferentiation. The present study used multi-voxel …

Faces constitute a unique and widely used category of stimuli. In spite of their importance,
there are few collections of faces for use in research, none of which adequately represent the …