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Chapter One - Introduction to the Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2025

Angela Gutchess
Angela Gutchess
Affiliation:
Brandeis University, Massachusetts
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Summary

This chapter reviews theories of cognitive aging, considering how those classic theories intersect with those informed by cognitive neuroscience methods. The chapter also reviews cognitive neuroscience methods, reviewing methods to study the structural integrity of the brain as well as those used to investigate brain function or the ways in which multiple measures can be combined. The chapter ends with discussion of recent methodological advances, including multivariate analysis methods and the study of beta-amyloid and tau.

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cognitive aging theoriescompensationdedifferentiationcognitive neuroscience methodsfMRImultivariate analyses
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Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging , pp. 1 - 22
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Cabeza, R., & Dennis, N. A. (2013). Frontal lobes and aging: Deterioration and compensation. In Stuss, D. T. & Knight, R. T. (Eds.), Principles of Frontal Lobe Function (2nd ed., pp. 628–652). New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Cox, S., Ritchie, S., Tucker-Drob, E., et al. (2016). Ageing and brain white matter structure in 3,513 UK Biobank participants. Nature Communications, 7, 13629. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13629.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Friedman, D. (2012). Components of aging. In Luck, S. J. & Kappenman, E. S. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Event-Related Potential Components (pp. 513–536). New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., & Park, D. C. (2014). How does it STAC up? Revisiting the scaffolding theory of aging and cognition. Neuropsychology Review, 24(3), 355–370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-014-9270-9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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